India, June 26 -- Weeks after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) launched an app for people to register and track complaints regarding potholes, former corporators have criticised the civic body for not revealing real-time data to the public and demanded it be made available to citizens through a live dashboard.

In a letter to civic chief Bhushan Gagrani on Wednesday, former Colaba corporator Makarand Narwekar stated that the recently launched Pothole QuickFix app lacks basic transparency. "It does not display ward-wise or city-wide data on reported, repaired, or pending potholes. This defeats the purpose of public participation in governance," he said.

Narwekar highlighted the dire state of the A ward in south Mumbai as a sta...