India, Aug. 6 -- Videos purportedly showing pedestal fans being used to dry a damaged section of Uttar Pradesh's newly inaugurated Kanpur-Lucknow Expressway during repair work have gone viral.

The videos show fans kept on the side of a road undergoing repair work. The fans face the damaged stretch, completely soaked from waterlogging.

Besides triggering outrage, the post has prompted a range of responses from social media users. An individual commented, "Are we rolling back to the Stone Age!!! Marvellous technologies invented by so-called stakeholders."

Another asked Grok, "Do pedestal fans help in drying the road for patch work as shown in the video or can normal wind do much better drying?" The AI chatbot replied, "Pedestal fans help...