Pothole Map India

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Every pothole has an address. Let's write it down.

From national highways to the lane outside your house: take a photo, drop a pin, and put it on a map that anyone can see. Complaints get lost. A map with thousands of names on it is harder to ignore.

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01 · The cost

What a hole in the road costs.

Potholes are treated as an inconvenience, something you swerve around. The official numbers say otherwise, and they only count what the police write down.

  • 2,161

    people were killed in road crashes caused by potholes in 2023, about six every day.

    Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Road Accidents in India 2023

  • 5,840

    crashes in 2023 were attributed to potholes, up from 4,446 the year before.

    MoRTH, Road Accidents in India 2023 and 2022

  • 14,926

    deaths in pothole-related crashes between 2013 and 2017. The Supreme Court called it “frightening”, more than the toll from terror attacks.

    Supreme Court of India, July 2018, as reported by The Wire

  • 3.14%

    of India's GDP is lost to road crashes every year, in lives, injuries, lost work and damage. Bad roads are part of that bill.

    MoRTH-commissioned study by TRIPP, IIT Delhi and DIMTS, cited by the Union Minister in 2021

None of these figures count the broken axles, bent rims, back injuries, missed shifts and hours spent crawling around craters. That damage isn't recorded anywhere yet. This map is where it starts.

02 · How it works

Thirty seconds, standing on the roadside.

No account, no forms to print. Your phone already knows where you are.

  1. 1

    Photograph it

    One clear photo is enough. Include something for scale if you can, like a foot, a bottle or a tyre.

  2. 2

    Pin it

    We use your phone's location or the photo's GPS tag. Nudge the pin if it's a few metres off.

  3. 3

    Plus one it

    Already on the map? If someone reported a pothole within 15 metres, your photo joins theirs and counts as a +1. Every +1 raises its priority.

03 · Open data

Built for the people who fix roads.

Every report is public and downloadable. No sign-up, no API key. The more people who use it, the harder it is to say nobody knew.

  • Municipal bodiesSee clusters by ward and street, and prioritise by how many people report the same spot.
  • NHAI & state PWDsFilter by national or state highway and export the stretch you're responsible for.
  • NGOs & RWAsTake evidence with photos and dates to the officials who can act on it.
  • Journalists & researchersTrack which reports get fixed, and which don't.

Download the data

Updated live. Licensed under the Open Database License. Filter with ?state=, ?road_type= or ?status=.

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Fixing a road starts with knowing where it's broken.

It takes thirty seconds and no account. Every report stays public until the road is fixed.

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