Annoyed by the government’s inability to repair damaged roads, a businessman who had lost his son in a road accident, took the initiative to fix the potholes himself.
Manoj Wadhwa, a telecom engineer, lost his three-year-old son in a pothole-related road accident on the Delhi-Agra highway six years ago. He knows better than others what irreparable loss and pain a crater on the road can cause.
On Sunday, Wadhwa and a few of his friends took to filling up some potholes themselves. They took three bags of mixed bitumen and other items needed for fixing potholes. The group searched for the localities with damaged roads, gathered at the spots, cleaned the site and poured cold-mix into the potholes to fix them.
“We chose Sunday (Republic Day) to fill potholes with the hope that this will wake up government agencies. If a few of us can fill potholes, why can’t government agencies and contractors do this small thing despite having all resources at their disposal?” said Wadhwa, as quoted by a few media reports.
Wadhwa is also fighting a case against the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and a private company to find the party responsible for fixing the pothole that caused his son’s death.
