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One protest, one-day pothole repair

The Imlibun–Putlibowli stretch near Gowliguda was repaired after a resident protested. GHMC has not published the work order, specification or durability details.

By Ctrl Alt DebatePublic ServicesHyderabad
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A freshly patched pothole on a Hyderabad street sits beside a REPAIRED stamp, while files labelled WORK ORDER, SPEC and DURABILITY remain locked in a cabinet and a road roller drives away.

A patched stretch of Imlibun–Putlibowli Road has no publicly located work order or durability details.

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A damaged stretch of Imlibun–Putlibowli Road near Gowliguda bus stand was repaired after a resident protested by sitting in a pothole, according to reports published on September 1 and 2. The protester was identified variously as Feroz, Feroze and Firoz; the spelling could not be independently standardised.

Telangana Today described the work as patchwork. Shopkeeper Bharath said heavy vehicles could damage the road again and demanded a cement-concrete road. The repair has not been matched by a publicly accessible GHMC work order, estimate, contractor detail, engineering specification or completion schedule. GHMC’s official X account also had no located post confirming this specific work.

A report attributed an unnamed GHMC official as saying the stretch had been patched three times and damaged by water stagnation. That claim was not corroborated by a primary civic record. For now, the road has received a repair; whether it has received a solution remains undocumented.

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