00:00Okay, let's turn to tonight's Get Real India story which comes from the suburb of Dombevli near Thane district of Maharashtra.
00:08Now the flyover here called the Pallava flyover was built to ease traffic between Navi Mumbai, Kalyan and Thane.
00:15All very very populated, densely populated suburbs of Mumbai.
00:20Guess what? It's turned into a full-blown fiasco.
00:23Seven years in the making, inaugurated in the month of July, shut the very same day, reopened only to be shut once again.
00:34Why? Get Real India. Take a look.
00:41Mumbai's Pallava flyover was meant to be a lifeline, part of an ambitious plan to decongest the ever-choked Dombevli stretch.
00:49Built by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, the 562-metre-long bridge was inaugurated on the 4th of July this year.
00:58But within hours of being opened, motorists began to skid.
01:02The freshly laid surface was too smooth.
01:04The flyover had to be shut down the very same day.
01:07A day later, sand was sprinkled to increase friction and the bridge was reopened.
01:12But the woes of the public were far from over.
01:15Within just a week, the newly built flyover was riddled with potholes.
01:18By the third week of September, the bridge became a nightmare for commuters.
01:45Repeated patchwork attempts failed to fix the damage.
01:48Finally, the MSRDC had no choice but the shutter bridge again, this time completely stripping off the entire asphalt layer and relaying it from scratch.
01:57Even today, parts of the bridge remain closed as resurfing work continues.
02:00Local leaders now want accountability.
02:25The Pallava debacle has once again raised big questions over public infrastructure and accountability in Maharashtra.
02:53With video journalists Ajay and Devesh Singh in Mumbai, Bureau Report, India Today.
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