India, Dec. 15 -- Amid mounting public anger over delays in the Mumbai-Goa highway project, a 28-year-old activist from Raigad district undertook a 490-km walk along the entire stretch to document safety lapses and draw attention to the risks faced by commuters. For a long time, citizens have been staging protests and hunger strikes, expressing unrest and resentment over the long-pending and delayed project.

Calling his campaign a 'Rasta Satyagraha', Chaitanya Patil, a resident of Kasu village in Raigad, spent 29 days walking along the Mumbai-Goa National Highway (NH-66), recording potholes, accident-prone stretches, incomplete works, missing road signs and other hazards that put commuters' lives at risk.

"My only goal is to make the Mu...