A two-wheeler rider was trying to negotiate around a pothole in front of Inorbit Mall in Whitefield, when a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus ran over him from behind on Friday. A few days ago, several school buses were stuck for hours in a traffic jam that paralysed the entire Whitefield and Varthur areas.

Fed up of the poor civic infrastructure in the area, like-minded citizens are now coming together to draw the attention of the authorities to the effect that this is having on their lives. On November 30, residents and those working in the suburb are joining hands for #SaveWhitefield, a non-political and peaceful protest. This, they hope, will make the government and civic authorities to realise the “tremendous neglect and apathy in Whitefield and east Bengaluru”.

Utkarsh Singh, a resident of Whitefield, told The Hindu that the idea of the protest germinated after traffic was paralysed for hours on end on November 16. “Children struggled in the traffic without water and food for hours. The progress of civic works that have been taken up is slow and works are of poor quality. The area that is giving so much in tax to the government gets very little in return,” he said.

Residents of the area are spreading word on the protest through Whatsapp and on social media.

The idea of the protest germinated after traffic was paralysed for hours on November 16, says a Whitefield resident