What does the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) do when the High Court orders it to make the numbers of those responsible for the city’s bad roads available to the public? It does just that in an advertisement published in most newspapers across the city. The only hitch being that it did not brief a single one of the civic engineers named in that advertisement about it.

When mid-day tried to call the numbers given to see what their response would be, here’s what we encountered. One engineer was peeved about being woken up at 7am, while another was worried that the public could see her Whatsapp display pictures. Another one said he was on sick leave, while yet another said she had been transferred and her name should not have been on the list. The rest seemed bewildered that their personal numbers had been made public. Also, two numbers had nine digits, while one had eleven.