Residents of Bengaluru tried a brand new method to get the eye of elusive officers from town’s native administrative physique Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) with regard to its crumbling infrastructure, potholes and accidents.
Bengaluru’s potholes have grow to be notorious for inflicting a number of accidents and taking a number of lives this 12 months. A involved resident took the web by storm after saying NASA scientists will quickly arrive in Bengaluru to conduct analysis on moon craters which have appeared on Earth – referring to potholes.
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“NASA scientists to quickly arrive in #Bengaluru for analysis on moon craters that simply appeared on Earth. Location : #Hennur underpass on ORR. Expensive @BBMPCOMM & @blrcitytraffic please put security barricades right here to guard this location for scientific analysis,” he tweeted.
The tweet has greater than 400 likes and 130 retweets on the time this text was being written. Whereas some discovered it completely hilarious, others echoed the priority hidden behind it, with a person saying, “@BJP4Karnataka Higher put collectively group of non-political specialists and do one thing shortly for Bangalore. If not for folks, do to your personal re-election. The indifference in direction of Bangalore is kind of baffling.”
“True – they should preserve a digicam completely to watch the rise in crater each quantity and depth. Moreover they’ll additionally see water flooding ceaselessly which can even dramatically enhance the craters in newer areas,” one other reply learn.
The publish additionally caught the eye of the Bengaluru site visitors police, who replied and tagged BBMP heads and IAS officers Tushar Giri Nath, the chief commissioner and Rakesh Singh, the administrator of the physique.
On the identical time, there was one more accident reported within the metropolis because of a gap within the highway on Tuesday. “An accident because of sanitary line making a gap within the highway. Bbmp fastened in minutes. Bwssb want s to repair the sanitary line,” Vikram Mailar Vijay, related to Bengaluru NavaNirmana Occasion, tweeted, whereas sharing a video.
In the same occasion, a 51-year-old girl was killed on Monday evening after she fell off a scooter and got here underneath a bus in Bengaluru, whereas she was driving pillion behind her daughter as they had been making an attempt to manoeuvre round a pothole.
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The BBMP is underneath fireplace for civic apathy as residents name for motion to keep away from such untoward incidents sooner or later. The physique has additionally confronted embarrassment after newly opened roads and flyovers are closed for repairs following the emergence of latest potholes and highway cave-ins.