Fill potholes or face the music warns Deputy CM DK Shivakumar
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Fill potholes or face the music warns Deputy CM DK Shivakumar

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar warned BBMP officials of stern action if they failed to fill up potholes across the city within the deadline he has given. Speaking to reporters after holding a meeting with senior officials of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike on Sunday, the Bengaluru Development minister said he has directed officials to fill up potholes in all wards on a priority basis. It may be recalled that the DCM had held a meeting with BBMP officials on September 1 and had given a 15-day deadline to fill up potholes. Meanwhile, he told reporters that he also directed officials to identify trees and take necessary steps so that incidents of tree fall do not occur again.

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Pothole-filling deadline ends, but ‘craters still exist’
6 months, 1 week ago

Pothole-filling deadline ends, but ‘craters still exist’

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: As the 15-day deadline imposed by Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar to fill all potholes in the city ended on Monday midnight, the BBMP was seen going full steam with the task. As stated by Shivakumar earlier, let him go around the city and inspect if the BBMP has filled the potholes and take severe action against officials who …

Deputy CM DK Shivakumar's warning hits home, Wards get officers to fix potholes
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Deputy CM DK Shivakumar's warning hits home, Wards get officers to fix potholes

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Taking serious note of the deadline issued by Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar to fill up all potholes in the city, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike is working on a war footing and has appointed nodal officers ward-wise in all eight zones of the municipality to oversee work to fill potholes. They will address the issue of potholes, and also …

Pothole problem can’t be fixed in 15 days, say civic activists as BBMP starts to fill them
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Pothole problem can’t be fixed in 15 days, say civic activists as BBMP starts to fill them

The Hindu  

Following a 15-day deadline set by Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Development Minister D.K. Shivakumar to fill potholes on city roads, senior civic officials, including special commissioners, are overseeing the exercise on the streets, even inviting the media and making it an event. In the last three days since Mr. Shivakumar asked senior officials to go to the streets and …

DKS warns officials of action if Bengaluru is not pothole-free
6 months, 2 weeks ago

DKS warns officials of action if Bengaluru is not pothole-free

The Hindu  

A week after setting a 15-day deadline to make the city’s streets pothole-free, Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Development Minister D.K. He warned officials of stringent action if there were any complaints of potholes by the end of the 15-day deadline he set on September 2. He stated that at the end of the 15 days, he would conduct city …

Potholes worsen traffic on flooded roads in Bengaluru city
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Potholes worsen traffic on flooded roads in Bengaluru city

The Hindu  

The pothole-riddled city roads added to the woes of the commuters on Monday, August 12, who were navigating through the inundated roads. Praful S., who commutes on the Outer Ring Road daily to the office, said, “My bike tyre fell into a pothole and I almost lost balance. However, somehow I managed to gain balance again.” He said even during …

After rain, potholes resurface on Bengaluru roads
10 months, 1 week ago

After rain, potholes resurface on Bengaluru roads

The Hindu  

After Bengaluru received a spate of rains recently after a long dry spell, familiar rain-related problems like potholes are back. Although the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike claims that it has been routinely filling potholes using cold-mix, many residents complain that many roads appear to have been unattended to. A resident of BTM Layout said that there were multiple ongoing civic …

BBMP to conduct survey to identify new potholes created after recent rains
2 years, 7 months ago

BBMP to conduct survey to identify new potholes created after recent rains

The Hindu  

Complaints of the poor condition of the city’s roads have been pouring in from citizens, prompting the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike to start a survey to identify fresh potholes created after recent rains in Bengaluru. We will conduct another fresh survey to identify the potholes and fill it up.” He also said that the civic body has decided to fix …

BBMP chief inspects traffic junctions, says remaining potholes will be filled at the earliest
2 years, 8 months ago

BBMP chief inspects traffic junctions, says remaining potholes will be filled at the earliest

The Hindu  

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has maintained that around 1,500 potholes on major roads, main roads of the wards, and others in the city will be filled at the earliest. Chief Commissioner of BBMP Tushar Giri Nath, during a late-night inspection of traffic junctions selected for decongestion on Saturday, told presspersons that in the city 4,500 potholes were identified for …

Civic body BBMP says 9.5k potholes identified in Bengaluru
2 years, 10 months ago

Civic body BBMP says 9.5k potholes identified in Bengaluru

Hindustan Times  

Civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike on Monday said so far, around 9,500 potholes have been identified across the city. “This is not the final number as the procedure has just been started and is the data is only two to three days old,” BBMP special commissioner KV Trilok Chandra said. On May 9, the BBMP had said that it …

'We Personally Feel You Have Not Done Anything': Karnataka High Court On BBMP's Claim Of Filling Up All Bengaluru Potholes
3 years, 2 months ago

'We Personally Feel You Have Not Done Anything': Karnataka High Court On BBMP's Claim Of Filling Up All Bengaluru Potholes

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday took strong exception to the oral claim made by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike that it has filled up all the potholes across the city. A division bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Suraj Govindaraj orally observed, "We personally feel that you have not done anything.Don't say anything which we ourselves feel …

Fines no quick fix: city won’t be silenced
5 years, 5 months ago

Fines no quick fix: city won’t be silenced

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru is notorious not just for its potholes but for the BBMP's apathy towards them. The BBMP has attempted to improve efficiency by imposing fines of Rs 1,000 on the engineers, for poorly maintained roads and the unscientific filling of potholes. Despite the loss of lives, "they don't bother," he says, adding, "Criminal cases have to be slapped against the …

80 per cent potholes filled, really BBMP?
7 years, 5 months ago

80 per cent potholes filled, really BBMP?

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: The 15-day deadline Chief Minister Siddaramaiah set for the BBMP to fill all potholes in the city is ending on Tuesday. Rajashekar, president, Citizens' Action Forum, said, “The BBMP can even claim that it has filled 100 percent potholes in the city because there is no one to check their claims. Initially, they said the city has 15,935 potholes, …

Pothole filling BBMP's big coverup?
7 years, 5 months ago

Pothole filling BBMP's big coverup?

Deccan Chronicle  

The chief minister has just handed the BBMP a major task of filling up 15,935 potholes across Bengaluru in just 15 days. The city may have been deluged by wet weather and seen its roads turn into near mud tracks in places as a result, but now it’s raining promises with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah assuring Bengalureans that the 15,935 potholes …

Don't fix potholes, BBMP... yet
7 years, 5 months ago

Don't fix potholes, BBMP... yet

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: After two innocent people were killed while trying to avoid a pothole on Sirsi Circle Flyover, the BBMP has gone on an overdrive to fill potholes in the city. Asked whether the BBMP has taken rain forecasts into consideration before starting the pothole filling drive, BBMP Commissioner Manjunath Prasad said, "As per the forecast, the city is set to …

The hole' story: How BBMP left city, its roads to rot
7 years, 6 months ago

The hole' story: How BBMP left city, its roads to rot

Deccan Chronicle  

A few days of incessant rain and the average Bengalurean struggles to find a stretch of road amidst the potholes. Experts have provided authorities with a number of scientific solutions which are always cast aside in favour of shoddy patch work that fills the pockets of politicians and officials, leaving Bengaluru at the mercy of the monsoon every year, reports …

BBMP hits the pothole, jolted into action
7 years, 7 months ago

BBMP hits the pothole, jolted into action

Deccan Chronicle  

When the monsoon sets in, stepping out onto Bengaluru's roads is nothing short of an act of daring. Lamenting the continued damage to city roads in heavy rain, managing trustee and CEO of BPAC, Revathy Ashok says civic officials need to base their plans on data of the rainfall pattern of the city over the past 150 to 200 years, …

Yawn. There’s yet another pothole
12 years, 3 months ago

Yawn. There’s yet another pothole

The Hindu  

Reams and reams have been written about Bangalore’s infamous potholed roads but no amount of public outrage has prodded the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s into action. “We have identified over 500 roads that are not motorable due to potholes and have informed the BBMP authorities, but nothing has been done so far,” the official said and pointed out that the …

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