For motorists, commuting within the city is akin to completing an obstacle course. For pedestrians, the state of roads and lack of pavements is a health hazard. Inundated with complaints from citizens, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to constitute a zonal-level task force to oversee filling up of potholes and repairing bad reaches on high-density corridors, arterial and sub-arterial and ward roads.
Civic officials said that each ward has an allocation of ₹20 lakh only for filling up the potholes.
The task forces will be overseen by the chief engineer, executive engineers, assistant executive engineers and ward engineers. A note in this regard was issued to all engineers by chief commissioner Gaurav Gupta on Thursday.
Motorists and pedestrians are sceptical, but hope that the task forces will be effective in tackling the problem. Apart from several roads dug up for development works that are in different stages of completion, there now are numerous…