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Mr FIXIT of Hyderabad
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They call him ‘Mr Fixit’, ‘Road Doctor’ and what not. Gangadhara Tilak, a retired senior section engineer of Railways, has been tackling potholes with all his might since 2010 and has till date spent more than Rs 20 lakh of his own money and put in more than 15,000 man-hours.
Hyderabad: They call him 'Mr Fixit', 'Road Doctor' and what not. Gangadhara Tilak, a retired senior section engineer of Railways, has been tackling potholes with all his might since 2010 and has till date spent more than Rs 20 lakh of his own money and put in more than 15,000 man-hours.
Two incidents – a speeding car splashing up the dirty water from a pothole and smearing the uniforms of school-going children and a young man losing his limbs because of an accident due to a pothole – strengthened his resolve to wage a war on potholes.
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