Bengalureans

Pothole Raja

potholes

Bengaluru

BBMP

Commissioner BH Anil Kumar

Met the team of POTHOLE RAJA and thanked them for the initiative taken on behalf of the citizens of Bengaluru BH Anil Kumar, BBMP Commissioner

While complaining about the city’s potholed roads might be common for, around 20 residents came together to paint a different picture and lead by an example on Sunday morning.A team of 20 volunteers from, filled around 30from Iblur to HSR BDA Complex.BruhatMahanagara Palike (, who happened to pass through the stretch, stopped to interact with the team and praised their work.The mayor also tweeted about his interaction with them. “Met the team of POTHOLE RAJA while they were filling up the potholes and thanked them for the initiative taken on behalf of the citizens of Bengaluru. I thank the volunteers who have come forward to assist #BBMP to fix the city, [sic]” tweeted BH Anil Kumar.Sourabh Kumar, Chief Operating Officer of Pothole Raja said, “The commissioner was very appreciative of our efforts and said that BBMP, too, was actively working towards important infrastructural changes and ridding the city of drainage issues. He also said that something along the lines of Adopt A Street programme could be started for the roads as well so that residents can take charge and make the roads pothole-free.”Pothole Raja is an initiative by Bengaluru-based Prathap B Rao and Sourabh Kumar and is engaged in filling potholes. For this, they also produce their own cold asphalt mix which is all-weather proof and eco-friendly as no heating is required while manufacturing or laying it.Plastic waste and rubber are premixed in it. One can fill potholes with the mix in minutes and the road can be used soon after. Volunteers used a hand tamper to flatten the asphalt and a spreader and a brush to clean up the potholes before filling them up.The team is currently functioning in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai. Saurabh says that for this year, their aim is to fill more than 10,000 potholes in India. In Bengaluru, Pothole Raja has already filled more than 5,000 potholes over three years.