‘Contractor Chandru and his diggings’ - a hilarious video on Bengaluru roads
Hindustan TimesA spoof video on the sorry state of roads in Bengaluru - due in no small part to repeated digging up by local bodies - is doing the rounds on social media. A video, shared by a content creator, is going viral on social media and depicts the plight of Bengaluru residents each time a road is dug up. READ | Viral: Bengaluru man shares meme on 'BBMP and BWSSB at work': See his post here It shows a 'contractor' repeatedly digging up a road for various reasons - white topping, laying water pipes and fibre cables for internet - while a 'resident' questions him every time. @BBMPCOMM is this planning?” READ | Electric poles of this Bengaluru road worry residents “Every time I watch you guys, you crack me up!” another wrote. Jokes apart, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, the local civic body responsible for the smooth administration of the Karnataka capital, the BWSSB - Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board - and the BDA, Bengaluru Development Authority, among other local bodies, have been accused of a lack of coordination amongst themselves as roads are dug and restored multiple times a year, causing inconvenience to residents on the daily.