Overview

• On August 10, five-year-old Arya penned “Narendra Modi ji, there is lot of traffic. We get late to school and office. The road is very bad. Please help,” signing her name, age and location alongside small drawings.
• Her father, Abhiroop Chatterjee, posted a photograph of the letter on X, where it has since garnered over 594,000 views.
• The timing of the post coincided with Prime Minister Modi’s inauguration of the Yellow Line Metro and the groundbreaking of Phase 3 in Bengaluru.
• Social media users praised Arya’s neat handwriting and innocence even as many vented frustration over the city’s gridlocked streets and crumbling roads.
• As of August 13, no formal reply from the Prime Minister’s Office to the child’s appeal has been reported.