Citizens can break their backs and spend oodles of money repairing their cars, navigating pothole-filled roads in India’s financial capital, but the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) just couldn’t care less. The civic body bought three Jet Patchers in 2010, coughing up a staggering Rs 68 crore. But three years down the line, they are all lying idle because the BMC has not got around to appointing an agency to operate the machines.

While commuters risk their lives every day on pothole-ridden roads, the Jet Patchers have been lying unused since 2010. File Photo