The recent deaths due to potholes and people’s efforts to fix them have brought potholes back to the headlines. However, Bengaluru’s bad road problem is not new. In 2015, Vijayan Menon, an army veteran based in Koramangala, filed a public interest lawsuit seeking direction from the court to improve the road conditions of the city, with particular emphasis on potholes and ditches.
In the course of seven years, the High Court has tried to fix the accountability on Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) by asking it to produce data, file status reports and compliance reports, and to come up with a working system that can monitor road quality.
