In a viral video making rounds on social media, a Bengaluru resident has exposed what many are calling a brazen failure of civic engineering. A road stretch at Channasandra Circle that was “repaired” on 27 September already crumbled just 48 hours later, the resident claimed.

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The footage shows the patched surface giving way, with water pooling and seepage visible, strong evidence, locals say, of a long-neglected drainage leak. “This patchwork won’t last one spell of rain,” the resident wrote in their post, tagging the Greater Bengaluru Authority (@GBA_office).
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(Also Read: Bengaluru pothole ‘patchwork’ sparks citizen backlash: ‘Let’s pay taxes in installments')
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