Pothole? Click it and alert Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike

BANGALORE: Are you fed up of potholes in the city? Just click a photo of one with your smartphone and upload it on the BBMP website. The online portal to address this issue will be rolled out by the Palike on November 1. BBMP has come up with an action plan to fix potholes, with the help of GIS-mapping technology. The Palike has joined hands with Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (Keonics ) to come up with an application that can be downloaded in Android-enabled mobiles with GIS (geographic information system). This will help in tracing the location from where the photographs have been taken. “A picture will be taken of that street and pothole through our application, then recorded in our system and a message will be sent to the engineer of that particular ward. BBMP will look into the issue, and later, another photo of the repaired road will be published . We are working on the software,” said PV Rai, consultant, Keonics. GIVE RESIDENTIAL UNITS BBMP, which made a council resolution in August to add Electronics City under the Palike’s ambit, is now asking for residential units in the suburb to be added to its boundary.After Electronics City Industries Association requested the chief minister not to add the area under the Palike , mayor D Venkatesh Murthy asked the government to add at least the residential units to BBMP. “If not the companies, we should get the residential units of Electronics City within BBMP limits,” he said. When TOI asked how a physical separation of a suburb can happen , the mayor said he will speak to the government.