People vent anger against dilapidated, inundated roads

Srinagar, Apr 29:  As the Srinagar roads and residential areas were flooded with waterlogging on Monday, several people took to social media to vent their resentment over what they termed as failure of authorities.

As Srinagarites woke up to the flood-like situation, commuters, pedestrians, and local residents used their smartphones to highlight waterlogging and dilapidated roads.

Scores of internet users shared the videos of waterlogged Boulevard Road, blaming the poor execution of projects. The netizens pointed out that even tourist hub areas like Boulevard are not maintained properly.

“Condition of Smart City Srinagar on famous VIP Boulevard Road Srinagar. This is the outstanding level of IQ of our smart city engineers,” an X user sarcastically wrote.

Raja Muzaffar Bhat, another netizen and social activist, while sharing the waterlogged roads of the famous Nishat Mughal Garden, said “they have choked road and areas is flooded. What kind of smart city is this,” he said in the video.

Later, in another video, authorities were seen digging the footpath along the famous Boulevard to make way for water into Dal Lake. Umar Rashid, another netizen, shared the video of flooded roads at Natipora area of Srinagar. Many users commented on scores of such videos, expressing their resentment against the failure of drainage.

“Welcome to Smart City where drainage chokes after hours of continuous,” Deeba, a netizen wrote while sharing another video of flooded Srinagar roads.

As scores of users vented their frustration on the failure of authorities, others used humour to highlight the issue. The social media was flooded with memes and funny videos about the situation. In one such recent video from Srinagar, a netizen was seen using paper boats on running rain water on the roads. “Many paper boats were used on the roads of ‘Paper’ smart city to facilitate the commute of locals,” a local sarcastically said on the video.

Some netizens used famous meme pictures, videos, and songs to highlight the issue in their own way. The Srinagarites said that contractors, engineers, and officials should be held accountable for failure.

“Do you think the failure of such contractors or engineers is making the public face problems,” another netizen posted a question on Facebook.