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A sharp road turn. No reflectors. And a danger that could easily go unnoticed after dark. Instead of waiting for someone else to fix it, Ramji Lodhi and his team stepped in. They installed reflectors at the dangerous turn, making it easier for travellers to spot the bend at...

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Manishvor 26 Tagen

Good work. However, I am sure the concerned Road Aurhorities will fine them and say who gave you the order to make this… our authorities don’t work and don’t like if someone else does their work. Shameless bunch of people.

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Satyameva Jayatevor 26 Tagen

Fire all municipal employees

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Rattledvor 27 Tagen

@mismprdc @DrMohanYadav51 Failed MP badly

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Reconocervor 27 Tagen

why no body makes videos of dangerous driving and wrong type of parking by autos to alert people ? @OfficeOfNG @anand

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Stoppa R22122Zvor 27 Tagen

Le danger arrive principalement en plein jour. Même s'il faut saluer cette initiative citoyenne, la nuit les phares préviennent plus facilement d'un danger en face.

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Akhilesh Godhavor 26 Tagen

Funny part is the vehicles driving rash in day light in this video.

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Wisegunvor 26 Tagen

That bush on the RHS needs to be trimmed down to below the headlight level.

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Flyingsaucer2025 🇮🇳 🇨🇦vor 26 Tagen

What is the state govt doing???

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Subbaraju Cherukurivor 25 Tagen

Appreciate the intent, but very poor and non standard installation. Clearing the shrubs on the concave side and a display boards are better, achieved through representation to the local authorities.

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A travellervor 26 Tagen

Normal people kaam kar rahe hain, PM ramp walk karne me busy hai !!

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Akhilesh Godhavor 26 Tagen

There is whiteline on side of the road which needs to be the guide for all motorists. Again great job installing reflectors 👍🏾

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Kiran Kumar Matteyvor 26 Tagen

Let the govt keep sleeping and common man doed keep doing their work. 🙏

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SunnysideUpvor 26 Tagen

God bless them.. True humans indeed

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MotoCatch AIvor 25 Tagen

Small actions can make a big difference in road safety. 👏 Reflectors today, safer journeys tomorrow.

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Jeetix.ethvor 26 Tagen

White lane or these signals are very best for night driving but why blame anyone else in this because there were signals on the road to our village, they completely disappeared in 1 year.

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Freedom Of Speechvor 26 Tagen

What a cause , what an impact 👏👏👏

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commoncitizenhydvor 26 Tagen

@prakashraaj @Cockroachisback just asking you both can do this also know

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SVCS- Empowering Communitiesvor 25 Tagen

What a Service. Kudos. to the "The Better India"

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Mehul (મેહુલ)vor 26 Tagen

If even this public has to do, what good are our babus and road authority? Nothing! Corruption karo, pet bharo, apna apna dekho, freebies baato

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shubham guptavor 26 Tagen

Is this really our country India , what is happening

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Nityyam Parrmar 🧗🏼‍♂️vor 27 Tagen

Great work

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Vandanavor 26 Tagen

🙏🏻

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There is a 50-metre stretch of road in Sector 68, Gurugram, that separates around 400 to 500 families at M3M Marina from the new master road GMDA is building between Sectors 68 and 69. Fifty metres. That is all. And it has been blocked. M3M Marina's original main gate was designed to open onto this stretch. The road that would lead straight to the Sector 68-69 dividing road and from there to the Sohna Highway near Badshapur. That gate has never opened. Not once. For four to five years, every resident of Marina has been using a single secondary gate that exits onto the Aklimpur-Teekli village road. A broken, patchy road through a village. Not a backup route. The only route. Now, after years of court disputes and a stay that was finally lifted in early 2026, HSVP cleared the encroachments on the Sector 68-69 road. Ninety percent of the land is free. GMDA tenders are nearly done. The road that thousands of residents had been waiting for is finally being built. For Marina, this should have meant one thing. The main gate could finally open. Instead, Supertech sent people to the connecting stretch. They physically dug up the road. Residents, including school buses carrying children, were turned away. Everyone pushed back toward the same secondary gate. The same broken village road. The same 700 to 800 metres of extra distance every single day. For 400 to 500 families, the solution was 50 metres away. It was dug up in front of them. I visited Marina yesterday with a client. The frustration on the ground is not dramatic. It is tired. These are families that have been asking for this access for years. They were told the road would come. Now a master road is actually being built right next to them. And they still cannot reach it. Supertech owns that land. Legally, it is within its rights. Nobody is questioning the title here. But sit with the picture for a second. This is the same Supertech that is under NCLT insolvency proceedings. The same builder whose allottees have been protesting outside HRERA, demanding refunds for flats that were supposed to be delivered in 2017. A company that cannot return a single rupee to its own buyers. Cannot finish its own construction. Cannot respond to its own regulatory orders. That company still had the resources and the intent to station people at a road and physically dig it up. A builder that cannot refund its own buyers always has the budget to block someone else's road. They all do. That is one constant across Gurugram real estate that never changes. This is not a one-off story either. On Golf Course Extension Road, there are societies where residents pay a private landowner hefty monthly rent just to use his vacant plot as a road to reach their own homes. Because the planned connectivity was never built. The pattern repeats everywhere. Builders launch, buyers pay, and the last 50 metres of access becomes someone else's problem. Sometimes it becomes the resident's monthly bill. The Sector 68-69 master road is being built. The hope was real. For 500 families, it still is. They are just waiting for someone to care about 50 metres.

Abhishek Bhardwaj

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