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Pavement construction leads to concretization due to urbanization which caused the conversion of natural pervious ground into impervious layer. The impervious layers have reduced the groundwater recharge and increased the frequency of flash and floods along with urban heat island (UHI effects). One of the engineered ways to reduce the effect of impervious layers is by adopting pervious concrete pavement suitability. Pervious Concrete pavement helps to increase the groundwater recharge, reduce the UHI effect, and the frequency of flash and floods. However, the urbanization and implementation of pervious concrete pavement in Indian are very minimal owing to lack of expertise and experience. Pervious Concrete is a special type of concrete that does not have fine aggregates like conventional concrete pavement. It consists of cement, coarse aggregates, water and admixtures if required. As there are no fine aggregates in the concrete matrix, the void content is more which introduces porosity, hence also called as permeable concrete and porous concrete. Due to the introduction of voids, the compressive strength of pervious concrete is less. A lot of research work is going on to increase the compressive strength of concrete. Hence due to having low strength as compared to conventional concrete, it's usage is limited even though having a lot of advantages. For now, it's usage is limited to parking spots and lightweight traffic roads. If the properties are improved, we can use pervious concrete for medium and heavy traffic roads. The main aim of our study is to assess the suitability of the perforated road pavement system advantageously.