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Nallurhalli Junction

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Frustrated over Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) failing to take up the road-related works, the residents of Nallurhalli (near ITPB) have come up with an innovative campaign to call up theofficials regularly to know the progress of a road. The campaign started with entrepreneur Vaijayanthi Bhat’s post on a social site’s ‘Whitefield Rising’ group.The message posted on Tuesday read, "Looking for volunteers who are willing to spend two minutes every 7-10 days to call BBMP officials asking when Siddapura road (Varthur to Nallurhalli) will get fixed. Please ping me if you are up for this.” Bhat added that when she spoke to the BBMP official, he said they were planning to (complete the work). However, the big question was ‘when’? Interestingly, Bhat’s post received an overwhelming response. She had an alphabetical list of callers in place by Wednesday evening.Sridhar Bitthal Ojha, a SAP business one consultant said, "I bought my flat two years ago at Borewell road. The infrastructure is going from bad to worse with every passing day. Theare not maintained well especially in the stretch betweenand. Secondly, the construction debris is dumped on the road to make matters worse. Sometimes, it takes more than an hour to cross the stretch. Recently, one of my friends Prakash Hadimani – met with an accident here and sustained multiple injuries. He had to be rushed to a hospital in an ambulance. So, I have volunteered to be a part of the campaign and will keep calling the BBMP till we accomplish the job.”Recalling his harrowing incident, Hadimani, a civil engineer said, “I was driving my two-wheeler on the ITPB Road in the last week of April. A small portion of the road had been dug up by the BWSSB and has not been levelled properly. Despite being in a controllable speed, I fell into a ditch. The only good thing that happened on that day was that I fell on left side of the road. If I had fallen on the right side, I’d have probably been run over by a speeding vehicle. Following this fall, I had a leg sprain and was bedridden for a fortnight. More than a month has passed since the accident, that particular portion has not yet been repaired.”Bhat explained, “How long does it take for a road to get asphalted? There may be reasons like land acquisition problems or pending BWSSB work which is understandable, but what is stopping officials from fixing an already existing road? The road is full of potholes or rather craters. Also, there are no height barriers, heavy vehicles chug along making things worse.”