Overview

• About 20–25 members of the Bharathinagar Residents’ Forum gathered on Webster Road, adorned a large crater with flowers, hired a priest, and prayed that no more lives be lost before filling it.
• Organisers say Cox Town has roughly 100 potholes and claim recent patchwork has been substandard, with craters reappearing within days.
• Residents have started a community pothole-filling drive and say they will keep at it if civic agencies do not deliver durable repairs.
• Karnataka’s chief minister set a one-month deadline to fix potholes, citing about 6,000 filled, 8,000 still pending, and a ₹750 crore allocation for road work.
• The BJP staged statewide rasta roko protests earlier in the week, calling the roads “death traps” and blaming the state government for administrative failure.