Officials pitch in after video of kids repairing village road in Odisha goes viral

BHADRAK: A day after video of children repairing a damaged road in Bhadrak’s Bagamara went viral on social media raising posers on administrative apathy, block officials visited the village to take stock of the situation on Thursday.

Led by block development officer Manoj Kumar Behera, the team assessed the road for repair works and assured needful action. In the viral video, at least five to six tribal children of Bagamara village in Gektua panchayat were seen packing stones in bags and carrying it on a cycle to fill the potholes and level the road. Onlookers who captured the video said the children, all aged between 8-9 years, spent around one and a half hours repairing the road. Asked about why they took it upon themselves to repair the road, the kids said,”We could see people have trouble communicating on the road. Since no one was coming to fix the potholes, we went ahead and did it.”