World of the Bizarre

Villagers in India find that newly-laid road is a carpet with asphalt on it

By T.K. Randall
June 9, 2023

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) Potholes are an aggravating problem pretty much anywhere in the world, which is why locals in the Indian village of Karjat-Hast Pokhari in Maharashtra's Jalna district were pleased when officials moved to resurface the area's roads as part of the Prime Minister Rural Roads Scheme.

Once the work was completed, however, the villagers were dismayed to discover that the workers had simply put down some sort of thin carpet-like material and covered it in a thin layer of asphalt.Footage of several locals lifting up the fake tarmac quickly went viral on social media.

Bizarrely, the contractor has since claimed that there is nothing actually shady about the road surfacing at all and that this is in fact a perfectly valid new technique used in Germany.

Unsurprisingly, however, the villagers don't appear to be convinced.


Source: Oddity Central

Tags: India, Roads