Around 4pm on Sunday, 24 hours after Darmender died after his car allegedly lost control after hitting a pothole on a road in Sector 58, vehicles shuddered as they passed over the same metre-long pothole — it was yet to be repaired.
Many of the city’s roads are pothole-ridden and the multiplicity of agencies who look after the city roads make it easy to pass the buck, said Sarika Panda Bhatt, programme coordinator for Haryana Vision Zero — a government initiative to achieve zero fatality on roads. “There is not a single pothole-free road. There are potholes even on Golf Course Road,” Bhatt said. “Then there are roads like Golf Course Extension Road, which are full of potholes. At least 50 roads in the city are like this,” she added.
