Even though the Vikram Lander and Pragyan rover was only sometime ago successfully separated from the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, the mission itself landed in Bengaluru. Confused? So were the residents of Herohalli when the saw an Astronaut in their vicinity. In the evening of September 1, pedestrians and vehicle drivers wondered if Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) decided to land its Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft in Herohali and that too with an astronaut!
To bring the condition of deadly roads to the notice of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), artist Badal Nanjundaswamy, came up with a unique idea. Nanjundaswamy is known to highlight infrastructure problems in his city.
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The video was by Bangalore Mirror, and was shot by?Anantha Subramanyam.?
Such was the impact of his video, that within 24 hours of his ¡®stunt¡¯ of drawing the attention of the authorities towards the adverse condition of the roads, civic authorities rushed to do damage control.?
After the overwhelming public response and media coverage of Baadal Nanjundaswamy's video, Bengaluru civic authorities filled the potholes on the road he covered. Baadal even thanked the authorities on Twitter for their instant response.
¡®Thank you for such an overwhelming response and support. Work in progress. Quick and prompt response from @BBMP. Thanks to Mr. Prabhakar, CE RR Nagar who is overlooking the situation on ground currently,¡¯ he captioned the video he tweeted which shows the repair of the road in progress.?
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LB Suresh, the Bengaluru civic body spokesperson told news agency IANS, "Under the supervision of our chief engineer S Prabhakar, the potholes on Tunganagar main road have been filled. We responded at the earliest to the artist's complaint.¡±
Well, it seems like you gotta go overboard and REALLY creative, to bring the problems of the country to the notice of the authorities. Now you know what to do when you have to attract the attention of the authorities- fake going to the moon.?