They were so confident in their bad work that they posted it online and then had to delete it because the Internet said, “Nah, chief.”
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Mumbai’s government body, tried flexing its “problem solved” muscles by posting photos of a repaired road in Mumbai’s Kunchi Korve Nagar. But instead of applause, they got memes, mockery, and probably a lifetime supply of shame.
An activist, Er Ataul Khan, flagged the pothole back in June, saying it caused “huge jerks” to vehicles. Four months later, BMC proudly announced “Issue resolved” with photos that would make anyone think twice before posting it to the public.
The tweet, which has now vanished like good roads after monsoon, showed what was supposed to be a freshly repaired patch. Instead, it looked like someone spilled leftover tarmac, jumped on it a couple of times, and called it a day.
Naturally, people roasted them online. Someone added, “Our benchmark of quality is so low, we post failures as achievements.” The civic body quickly deleted the tweet, but screenshots (of course) live forever.
Trust me, anyone who’s hit a Mumbai pothole at full speed has seen their soul briefly leave their body
This isn’t really about India being incapable, it’s about institutions like the BMC being run on inertia. These are so lazy and corrupt that pictures like these are a win for them.
When people in power stop fearing embarrassment, they start celebrating mediocrity. I mean, this is the same country that builds ISRO rockets, and also builds roads that die in one rain. So clearly, capability isn’t the issue. It’s priority and accountability that rot in the system like leftover tar in a pothole.
That was tone-deaf bureaucracy thinking “photo proof = job done.” The real shame is that it took public trolling, not internal checks, to fix (or unfix) or whatever the hell this is.
Every citizen calling them out, is a tiny win. Because mockery hurts where shame doesn’t, and maybe, just maybe, the next BMC intern will think twice before posting something like that. Do I think they are going to change?
Nah…
THE WHY: APATHY
I’ll give this one 2 stars because only in India do we delete posts about “fixed” roads faster than we actually fix them.
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