Bengaluru road cave-in: BBMP submits ‘positive’ report to PM

Left embarrassed after a portion of a Bengaluru road caved in barely a day after it was asphalted ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the city, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has penalised the contractor and submitted a ‘positive’ report to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), saying the road was not on his travel route.

After holding a meeting for better coordination between agencies, BBMP Chief Commissioner Tushar Girinath said that the civic agency has sent a four-page report to the PMO saying that the roads on which PM Modi travelled were intact. The report states that the road that caved in was near Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University (BASE) and not on the PM’s travel route.