Statue Of Potholes? Penguin Figure On Bengaluru's ORR Calls Attention To The Mess On The Roads
Karnataka's capital Bengaluru has a massive pothole problem, and with every passing day, the failure to fix them is costing more and more lives.
Fed up with the authorities, residents of Bengaluru have been using creative ways to draw attention to the death traps on the city's roads.
Statue of Potholes??
The latest such act involves a penguin figure. A photo shared by the Outer Ring Road Companies Association (ORRCA) on Twitter showed a penguin inside a pothole.
"Penguin in ORR Pothole" the caption of the photo, which also had the Google map location read.
?"Due to Global Warming the Penguins have started to move to Bengaluru. This one was spotted on the outer ring road. We need more potholes for the penguins to come and stay amidst us," a Twitter user, @CitizenKamran, wrote.
"We Saw Statue Of Liberty. We Saw Statue Of Unity. Now See Statue Of Potholes," another Twitter user wrote.
?The 'Statue Of Potholes' seems to be taking a cue from the 108 feet bronze statue of?Nadaprabhu Kempegowda, unveiled?last week.
The statue of Bengaluru's founder has been named 'Statue of Prosperity'?and was unveiled by PM Narendra Modi.
Potholes is a landmark on Google??
In the past, residents of Bengaluru have marked potholes in the city as a "landmark" on Google Maps to show their frustration.?
The pothole in the Bellandur area of Bengaluru was named "Abizer's Pothole" and some even gave five-star reviews on Google.?
Filling potholes is BBMP's constitutional obligation
Earlier this month, the Karnataka High Court slammed the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and stated that filling in potholes is a constitutional obligation of the civic agency.
"The roads in Bengaluru have been in pathetic condition for the last six years. The residents are facing grievances continuously. Potholes have become death traps and many lives are lost," it said.
The court underlined that giving certification for filling potholes by the BBMP only is not appropriate. The BBMP is in charge of filling up potholes, but it can't give quality certification in this regard for its own work, adding that in the coming days, the responsibility of quality certification will be given to the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI).
Promises pothole-free city by November 10
BBMP Commissioner Tushar Girinath had earlier stated that Bengaluru would be a pothole-free city by November 10.
Every day 1,000 potholes are being filled in the city and by November 6, 95 per cent of work will be done. The officers have been directed to complete the task by the deadline, he said.
However, this has not been fulfilled and the city's roads continue to be riddled with potholes.
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