India, Aug. 23 -- Tired of navigating potholes on city roads, Punekars have made a beeline for the Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC's) 'PMC Road Mitra' application (app). In just nine days, over 537 pothole-related complaints have been registered on the app with the civic road department claiming to have resolved 432 of them even as the remaining are being processed.

According to road department officials, road engineers immediately take action once a complaint is received and repair work is carried out by teams appointed under junior engineers. However, continuous heavy rainfall has laid bare even repaired potholes, leaving roads scarred by craters and loose gravel and inconveniencing motorists and pedestrians no end.

Aniruddha Pawask...