The I-T city of India, Bangalore, is still reeling under broken and beaten roads. The city which was lashed by heavy rains last week is witnessing potholes again. Even after extending deadlines on two occasions, the government is unable to fix the roads.
The first casualty of rains is the city's badly maintained roads and it has slowed down Bangalore quite a bit. A traffic inspector said that a traffic jam that used to take an hour to clear now takes as much as three hours. A helpless traffic police has put up barricades to shut off bad stretches, but that has not made much of a difference.
A woman lawyer says the situation is not bad, it's the worst. A man on bike says we are very angry as the situation has worsened. So many days have passed but nothing is done. The temporary patch-ups done by the civic authorities does not last long and the city corporation claims it is helpless.
"We have to wait for the rains to end. We cannot do anything," Bangalore Mayor BS Sathyanarayana said. In a month, scientists from Bangalore will send up a rocket to Mars, but civic authroites will have us belive that there is no technology to repair the roads. It is clear there is not much accountability.
The road was asphalted just last month but now sports gaping holes. "We will take action against that engineer. We can blacklist the contractor," Sathyanarayana said. Two deadlines to patch up potholes have elapsed and a fresh deadline has been issued by the government, but the people continue to suffer.
