{"id":598707,"date":"2023-08-21T10:28:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T04:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=598707"},"modified":"2023-08-21T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T06:20:28","slug":"fed-up-with-govt-apathy-bengaluru-techie-takes-rs-2-7-lakh-loan-to-fill-potholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fed-up-with-govt-apathy-bengaluru-techie-takes-rs-2-7-lakh-loan-to-fill-potholes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed up with govt apathy, Bengaluru techie takes Rs 2.7 lakh loan to fill potholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fed up with the government\u2019s \u201cindifference\u201d to their pleas to provide better civic amenities including filling potholes, \u2018Citizens Group, East Bengaluru\u2019 on Sunday launched a \u2018NoDevelopmentNoTax\u2019, a campaign to boycott paying property tax. Last week, members of the group got together and contributed funds to fix potholes on a 6km stretch in Halanayakanahalli, Muneshwara Layout and Choodasandra. <\/p>\n<p>A 32-year-old techie, Arif Mudgal, a founder-member of the group, took a loan of Rs 2.7 lakh for the purpose. Mudgal told TOI he witnessed two accidents on Hosa Road a few days ago which prompted him to lend a hand. \u201cA woman staying near my apartment sustained injuries when the auto she was travelling in toppled after it hit a pothole on Hosa Road,\u201d said Mudgal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed up with the government\u2019s \u201cindifference\u201d to their pleas to provide better civic amenities including filling potholes, \u2018Citizens Group, East Bengaluru\u2019 on Sunday launched a \u2018NoDevelopmentNoTax\u2019, a campaign to boycott paying property tax. Last week, members of the group got together and contributed funds to fix potholes on a 6km stretch in Halanayakanahalli, Muneshwara Layout and Choodasandra. A 32-year-old techie, Arif Mudgal, a founder-member of the group, took a loan of Rs 2.7 lakh for the purpose. Mudgal told TOI he witnessed two accidents on Hosa Road a few days ago which prompted him to lend a hand. \u201cA woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}