ROADS OF BAPUJI NAGR

One Sunday morning setout on a hunt for our favorite Sambar Idli in an authentic South Indian Restaurant located in Bapuji Nagar. After traveling through the lanes and by lanes of Bapuji Nagar locality for half an hour we reached a newly opened outlet Iyer Café. While tasting its delicacies and little later its filter coffee; the roads of the area flashed in our mind. The inside roads of one of the oldest area of Capital City are comparable to toxic cocktails of a group of natural speed breakers. Negotiating such roads on a two wheeler is as painful as or little more than the labor pain of a woman. When the rural country side sport well laid out concrete roads; why, the roads of Bapuji Nagar locality that is in 1 km radius from BMC office and CM’s residence in such a bad shape? Bad road condition could be an under statement. Bapuji Nagar is one of the oldest business and residential area that houses prominent business houses and powerful residents; in spite of that authorities have neglected such an area for such a long time. Little hard to believe! This could be a classic case of ‘vote bank politics’; as residents of Bhubaneswar mostly don’t turn up to vote. Be that as it may, Bauji Nagar deserves better roads.   

Bikash Choudhury

Bhubaneswar