Bengaluru Wish List | Citizens demand better roads, more accountability
The Hindu
Last year, over ₹20,000 cr. was spent on improving roads; citizens want work orders to be made public so they can be monitored
Last year saw citizens planting saplings and paddy on bad stretches of roads and performing pujas around potholes as rains left the city’s streets in an unmotorable state. But 2021 also exposed chinks in road infrastructure management in the city. Citizen groups and residents’ welfare associations say that fixing accountability is the only way to plug the gaps and it must be top priority in 2022.
In September 2020, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who also holds charge of Bengaluru Development, revealed that the administration had spent ₹20,060 crore on the city’s roads. Given the bad condition of roads and several pothole-related deaths over the period, the whopping amount raised eyebrows.