A spoof video on the sorry state of roads in Bengaluru – due in no small half to repeated digging up by native our bodies – is doing the rounds on social media. Titled ‘Contractor Chandru and his diggings’, it was shared by a content material creator recognized as ‘Vicky Pedia’ and has over 1,400 likes and 220 retweets on Twitter at 5.15 pm on Wednesday.
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It reveals a ‘contractor’ repeatedly digging up a highway for varied causes – white topping, laying water pipes and fibre cables for web – whereas a ‘resident’ questions him each time.
When the highway is dug up a fourth time, the contractor – ‘Chandru’ – says his sub-contractor’s cellphone fell into the ditch the final time it was dug up and employees need to retrieve the gadget.
The ‘resident’ appears to simply accept the primary three explanations and that the highway will probably be restored inside per week, however seems to be doubtful when confronted with the explanation for the fourth excavation.
Nonetheless, after staring for a number of seconds, he smiles and invitations them in for tea. The video ends on the observe ‘maintain doing what you are doing, the world will modify contractor Chandru’.
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Watch the video right here:
Twitter was flooded with feedback, with some suggesting concepts to stop repetitive digging up of roads, whereas some pointed to related situations they’ve skilled. “Bangalore wants GatiShakti type of plan with all departments on board to transform each highway into TenderSURE roads. Every highway ought to have Plug & Play possibility for Optical fiber, TV cable, Fuel pipeline, water pipeline, underground Electrical energy strains, SWD and so on,” a Twitter person mentioned.
Whereas, one other wrote, “Electrical poles being eliminated as we speak instantly after highway was newly re-laid on Panathur Varthur stretch. @BBMPCOMM is that this planning?”
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“Each time I watch you guys, you crack me up !” one other wrote.
Jokes aside, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the native civic physique liable for the graceful administration of the Karnataka capital, the BWSSB – Bangalore Water Provide and Sewerage Board – and the BDA, Bengaluru Growth Authority, amongst different native our bodies, have been accused of a scarcity of coordination amongst themselves as roads are dug and restored a number of instances a 12 months, inflicting inconvenience to residents on the each day.