India, Sept. 13 -- A decades' old problem involving a road (or the lack of it) has snowballed into a citizens' movement with an indefinite hunger strike scheduled to begin on Saturday, September 13, at Bakori Phata, Wagholi. The agitation, led by social welfare body, Wagholi Against Corruption Organisation (WACO), is aimed at making the authorities sit up and pay attention to the residents' long-pending demand for a proper road in the area.

For years, the residents of Wagholi and adjoining areas have had to depend on a narrow, nine-feet, Bakori Road despite a 60-feet-wide road clearly shown in all town planning documents. Citizens allege that thanks to collusion between builders and the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMR...