Engineer Who Lost His Three-Year-Old Son In A Road Accident, Fills Potholes On Faridabad Roads
telecom engineer Manoj Wadhwa and a few of his friends took it upon themselves to fill up some potholes. His three-year-old son died in a pothole-related road accident on the Delhi-Agra highway six years ago. He has been fighting a battle against National Highways Authority of India and a private construction firm to fix responsibility.
Miffed with the state machinery¡¯s failure to fix potholes on Faridabad roads, telecom engineer Manoj Wadhwa and a few of his friends took it upon themselves to fill up some potholes. This comes in light of Wadhwa¡¯s loss - his three-year-old son died in a pothole-related road accident on the Delhi-Agra highway six years ago.
Wadhwa went through tutorials on how to fill potholes. He then reached the site with three bags of mixed bitumen and other necessary items.
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With the help of two teams, Pothole Warriors and Pothole Raja he brushed the site to take out the dust and then poured the cold-mix to fill the potholes. Pothole Warriors and Pothole Raja carry out several campaigns to fill potholes to bring to light the inefficiency of municipal bodies and other road owning agencies.
¡°We chose Sunday (Republic Day) to fill potholes with the hope that this will wake up government agencies. If a few of us can fill potholes, why can¡¯t government agencies and contractors do this small thing despite having all resources at their disposal,¡± TOI quoted Wadhwa as saying.
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According to him, if there was no pothole on Delhi-Agra highway on February 10, 2014 his son Pavitra would still be alive. ¡°He would have been nine years now. Negligence of agencies ruined our happiness forever. I don¡¯t want anyone else to go through this pain of losing a family member. Now, it's a mission of life and I don¡¯t get disheartened even if I don¡¯t get very encouraging support from others,¡± he said.
He has been fighting a battle against National Highways Authority of India and a private construction firm to fix responsibility for the pothole since then.
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Talking about the accident he said, ¡°Pavitra was sitting between me and my wife. I spotted a pool of water on the highway and applied brakes. As I lost balance, Pavitra fell on a sharp stone, which hit his chest. A vehicle coming from behind ran over my wife¡¯s legs. Pavitra was declared brought dead when we reached hospital.¡±
Authorities should take notice of this problem and help Wadhwa with his mission.
