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Mumbai: Fed up, Vasai residents repair 1.8 km of potholed roads
Updated On: 01 August, 2018 07:58 PM IST | Mumbai | Samiullah Khan
Businessman and others pitch in to fix broken public roads in their colonies.
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Residents didn't just raise the money, they also helped the labourers to repair the road. Pics/Hanif Patel
The potholes in Naigaon East were so bad that residents couldn't even walk properly, let alone drive their vehicles. For a month, they complained and followed up with the civic authorities, to no avail. Fed up, the locals decided to just do the job themselves. Remarkably, it took them all of 24 hours and Rs 40,000 to do what the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation could not do in four weeks.
Interestingly, the roads at Pareira Nagar and Citizen Colony had been repaired less than a month ago, after extensive damage caused by thundershowers and flooding between July 9 and 12. But a few more bouts of rain were all it took for the potholes to reappear. The stretch in front of Don Bosco school was the worst, said resident Amar Gupte, adding, "Traffic had slowed down terribly. We wrote several complaints to the VVMC, but no action was taken."
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