'Bengaluru hang your head in shame': Biocon chairperson compares city roads with Ecuador streets

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw slammed the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on social media as she wrote that Bengaluru must "hang its head in shame" as she compared the roads of the capital city with the streets of San Cristobal in Ecuador.

"Clean and well designed streets in San Cristobal island in Ecuador. Bengaluru hang your head in shame," the Chairperson of Biocon Limited wrote on X, tagging the Solid Waste Management cell of the BBMP.

Shared in the morning, the post already has around 60K views and over 200 comments.

When a user suggested to Majumbar that Ecuador is too far and she could just compare the roads in Bengaluru to the roads in Mysore, Indore, Surat, Rajkot to make the point, she replied: "Yes but the point is that even Ecuador which is a developing country is well maintained by the local municipality."

However, many people in the comment section suggested that there was a huge difference between the population of Bengaluru and Ecuador.

"U need to be an ultra super genius to compare a place with a population density of 15 with a place with a population density of 4378..There r other ways to show off that u visited those islands 😉(sic)," a user commented on her post.

Meanwhile, many people agreed with her as one user wrote: "People are more concerned about speaking in Kannada than asking for basic rights. Unfortunately we will never have basic infra in Bangalore!"

This comes at a time when residents, commuters, and business owners in Jalahalli Cross and Peenya Industrial Area in northern Bengaluru recently expressed their frustration over the deteriorating infrastructure, citing prolonged delays in constructing the Jalahalli underpass and the complete absence of footpaths.

"Is Bengaluru just about Church Street and MG Road? The government must focus on other areas too. They have started white-topping the main road, but why was the underpass work not initiated simultaneously? Pedestrians are forced to walk on service roads without footpaths, risking their safety. How many years does it take to build basic infrastructure like footpaths?" asked Subhash Shetty, a resident of Nagasandra.

(With DHNS inputs)