Navin Lade requests to display the certificate issued by World Records India on the wall of BMC Commissioner’s Chamber :
Mumbai RPI (A) Employment Leadership Maharashtra General Secretary Navin Lade who recently won The World Records India Gold Medal, a Certificate and a Golden Frame Memento for his commendable war against Potholes in Mumbai has requested the BMC Commissioner to display the historic certificate on the wall of commissioner’s chamber.
Speaking to Hello Mumbai, Mr. Navin Lade said, “I have requested the Mumbai BMC Commissioner Ajoy Mehta to display the landmark certificate issued by World Record India on the wall of commissioner’s chamber. I have also mentioned that I am willing to pay the legal fees regarding the same!” He added, “I have submitted my written request to commissioner’s email Id ccrsdmp@gmail.com on 18th November 2018.”
It may be noted that to acquire the authentic ‘Data of Potholes on Mumbai Roads’ Mr. Lade started his campaign by uniting the people of Mumbai in his fight against the corrupt BMC. Mr. Lade launched his website mumbaipotholes.com and asked Mumbaikars to send the photograph of the potholes in their area which he uploaded on his website. He started this campaign on 17th July 2018 which soon became an instant success and Mumbaikars supported him in a big way by sending the photographs of the various potholes in every nook and corner of the city. The response was so fantastic that in just 38 days an authentic number of potholes in Mumbai were collected.
According to the study, Mumbai has 26, 934 potholes and the same figure is mentioned in World Records India.
Mr. Lade told Hello Mumbai, “Very soon this number will be registered in India Book too. Efforts are been taken by Golden Book to register the same in their book too! Though Guinness Book and Limca Book of record have rejected to register our efforts, once again the information has been sent across to Limca and Guinness Book to take the notice of the same (Via Email) and I am hopeful it will find a mention in these two books too!”
Mr. Lade has thanked the huge support of Mumbaikar for making his dream come true. “Even now the photographs are sent to mumbaipotholes.com by Mumbai residents. As of now the number of Pothole has reached 27,412. Though monsoon is over Mumbaikar continue to send pothole pictures daily. The number is increasing day by day,” informed Mr. Lade.

