Summary:
Accepting the request for three more days to close all the pothole, the bench said orally that the BBMP is required to achieve ‘zero’ potholes by September 24. Details of the work of closing potholes since September 19 were submitted to the court in a pen drive. Venkatesh has stated in an affidavit that additional 1,416 potholes were detected in the intervening night of September 19 and 20 when the BBMP engineers were in the process of attending to the potholes. West zone has the least number of potholes (27), Rajarajeshwari Nagar zone has 55 followed by East zone (68) and South (71). If it achieves the target of ‘zero’ potholes, it cannot be termed as ‘heroic’, as maintaining roads in the condition worthy for use is a basic duty of the BBMP, the bench observed orally..