This paper's piece about citizens filling potholes inviting warnings from the BMC had evinced a response from the civic authorities. They have decided to make citizens allies in their endeavour to fill the craters on the roads. Earlier the BMC had said that people should approach them with their complaints instead of trying to fill potholes on their own.

A turnaround has come because of the severe backlash that the BMC faced after giving these 'warnings'. We must, however, be alert to the genesis of the matter. Citizens had been forced to fill potholes because roads have been riddled with them in the monsoon. They are not being repaired quickly enough by the civic body.