In search of missing roads in Mumbai, citizens have taken to the streets under the campaign, ‘Laapata Sadak’ (Missing Roads). The citizens’ group, Mumbai March, conducted a Satyagraha protest on Tuesday, which was the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The campaign’s aim was to draw attention to the persistent issue of missing roads that, according to the group, have been absent for five decades despite being included in the Development Plans of 1967, 1991, and 2014.

The group contends that addressing the missing roads issue through the clearing of encroachment and construction could effectively alleviate traffic and congestion in Mumbai. Over 100 people from Mumbai March gathered at six locations in the western suburbs — near Gopalji Hemraj High School, Borivli East, at Kulupwadi junction near Sanjay Gandhi National Park, in Siddharth Nagar, in Thakur Village, in Lokhand-wala, Kandivli East and in Adarsh Nagar, Oshiwara.