It is going to be long while before Mumbai’s complaints about the abysmal state of its roads are addressed. The engineers whom the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has held responsible for listening to your road woes are busy venting their ire about their personal numbers being made public.

mid-day had reported yesterday about how road engineers from 24 wards were woken up on Friday by irate citizens who had got their mobile numbers from an advertisement published by the BMC in newspapers. The advertisement had been put out following High Court directives to the BMC earlier this month that the names and numbers of all engineers responsible for bad roads be made public as the BMC’s mobile application MCGM24*7 is not functioning.