Overview

• Dashcam video shows a school bus with about 20 children tilting after a wheel sank into a rain-filled crater on the Panathur–Balagere stretch; all students exited via the back door without injuries.
• East City Corporation Commissioner D. S. Ramesh inspected the site on Saturday and directed priority widening of the road to 18 metres, citing delays tied to land acquisition now to be resolved through TDR.
• He also ordered the removal of encroachments and faster desilting to restore stormwater flow toward Varthur Lake, with widening work begun at the accident spot.
• Residents mounted fresh protests after the clip spread online, accusing authorities of neglect on a corridor they say floods regularly and was inspected by the CM and Deputy CM earlier this year.
• The scare sharpened focus on Bengaluru’s chronic pothole crisis, with Deputy CM D. K. Shivakumar recently acknowledging roughly 10,000 identified potholes and ongoing efforts to close the backlog.