Bombay high court asks Centre, Maharashtra govt to address issue of potholes on highways

Observing that a distance that was traversed in 15 minutes on the Mumbai-Nashik highway was now taking two hours due to the potholes that had come up there, the Bombay high court (HC) has asked the Centre and the state government to take cognisance of the potholes on the said highway and other highways and initiate coordinated efforts to ensure that commuters do not lose lives due to the menace.

A division bench of chief justice Dipankar Datta and justice Girish Kulkarni, which has been hearing a public interest litigation complaining of potholes on the Mumbai-Goa highway, while referring to news reports (has not referred to a news report of any particular media organisation) that highlighted the pathetic state of the highway said,