Viral video of Indian citizens from the state of Maharashtra heaving asphalt on a recently repaired rural road. Road repairs are part of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s program to improve facilities and infrastructure, especially roads, in rural areas.

The Indian citizen looks angry as he points to the layer of asphalt being lifted. At first glance, the newly repaired and paved road appears smooth and of good quality. However, locals point out that the quality is poor. Some residents even removed the layer of asphalt and it turned out to be fake contractor work.

Residents were surprised to find that the newly repaired road was actually just a carpet covered in a thin layer of asphalt.

According Lokmat times, a resident of Karjat-Hast Pokhari, a village in Jalna district of Maharashtra, has long been pleading with elected officials to rebuild their dilapidated road. And, last month, their prayers were finally answered. They were happy because contractors were deployed to repair the roads and pave them at the same time.

However, the residents’ joy was short-lived. This is because the contractor in charge of the project did a very poor job. Workers simply lay a very thin layer of asphalt on a mat-like web that can be easily lifted off the ground.

Video of disgruntled resident Karjat-Hast Pokhari criticizing the contractor responsible for the works. They lifted the asphalt mat to show that the road was wrong. The video has gone viral on Twitter over the past week. The people in the video are shouting at the local builders and calling the road wrong.

The bad road was built under the Prime Minister’s Rural Roads Programme, and the contracting firm working on the special project claims to have used the latest German technology to build the road.

Residents are suing rogue contractors, project managers and related departments who are on trial for deceiving villagers with substandard workmanship that clearly won’t last long.