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Schoolgirls’ 40-second video gets their potholed road fixed
Three 15-year-old schoolgirls in Kondivade village, Maharashtra’s Karjat, shot a 40-second satirical news-style video of their potholed road on a mobile phone. They never posted it online; a classmate shared it from…
The Story in Brief
Three 15-year-old schoolgirls in Kondivade village, Maharashtra’s Karjat, shot a 40-second satirical news-style video of their potholed road on a mobile phone. They never posted it online; a classmate shared it from a WhatsApp status. The clip clocked millions of views and forced the local administration to resurface the road.
Neha Ghare, Jyotsna Mukane and Mansi Pawar, Class 10 students of Nyan Makarand Vidyalay, used a line from their teacher, “potatla pani pan halat nahi” (even the water inside your stomach would not stay still), to highlight the rough ride. India Today reports that their simple act of documenting the problem achieved what repeated complaints could not.
The Indian Opinion
Social media is usually blamed for spreading rumours, but here three girls used a phone as a mic and a WhatsApp status as a broadcast channel to fix a road. The predictable temptation will be to turn them into symbols of Gen Alpha activism or to score political points, Raj Thackeray may meet them, and a party leader called it “Gen Alpha exposing the system”. Let’s hold that applause. The real test is whether the administration fixes the other broken roads in Raigad district before another video goes viral.
Source: indiatoday.in
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