Tired of not getting quick responses to their problems by civic authorities, residents of Brookefield Layout have taken the matter into their own hands to fix dug-up patches of road in their locality through crowdfunding.
The residents alleged that the same stretch of Brookefield Road had been dug up at least 12 times by multiple civic agencies since June 2021, when it was asphalted by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).
“After a lot of persuasion, the road was asphalted back then. A few weeks later, one of the civic agencies dug it up for some work. Bescom also dug the road up a couple of times for underground cabling and a few repair works. BWSSB has also dug up the road for Cauvery water pipe repair work. Most of the times, these agencies do not close up the roads which is why, we asphalt it ourselves with crowdsourced money,” said Kaustubh Shantanu of Brookefield Layout Residents’ Association.
