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Walking through parts of Bengaluru can often mean stepping around broken pavements, missing tiles, parked vehicles, or stretches with no footpath at all. For many residents, especially children and elderly people, that means being pushed onto crowded roads simply to get from one place to another.<\/p>
Now, a 14-year-old student from the city has developed a mobile application aimed at helping citizens report such problems directly to civic authorities in a more organised way.<\/p>
The app, called \u201cRASTHE\u201d, allows users to upload photos of damaged or unusable footpaths, rate them, and vote on the worst stretches across the city. The teenager behind the project, Surya Uthkarsha, has described it as a \u201cTinder for Footpaths\u201d because of its swipe-based interface.<\/p>
Don’t Miss:\u00a0<\/strong>Main Bhi Cockroach! How \u2018Cockroach Janata Party\u2019 took over social media<\/p> How the app works<\/b><\/p> In a video shared on X, Surya explained the idea behind the platform and how users can interact with it.<\/p> \u201cI have built a mobile app for Bengaluru users to report footpaths. Say you don’t like a footpath, or it’s broken or unusable \u2014 upload an image while reporting it, and it shows up on the crowdsourced grid and is mapped to your ward, so BBMP can easily fix it.\u201d<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p>