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Road surface failures, potholes and related public infrastructure issues.
Amit Beyond Limits juxtaposes a Kanpur celebration for Narendra Modi’s birthday and 25 years in public office with the city’s damaged roads. Contemporary reporting independently confirms both the large Motijheel celebration and serious pothole/repair problems, but the reel does not prove that celebration spending was diverted from roads or that one caused the other.

A 2026 reel uses Nehru’s 1951 call for scientific temper to mock damaged roads, but the stronger issue is what road technology can actually guarantee. Government records show space technology is used as a monitoring tool alongside field testing, inspections and maintenance obligations; the reel’s unidentified road footage cannot establish why a particular road failed…
