Suvarna Brahmavar
Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (RD)
Udupi, Jan 3: The residents of Honnala, near here, staged a road blockade on Tuesday January 3 and peaceful protest urging the district administration to undertake urgent repairs to the dilapidated Brahmavar-Doopadakatte-Honnala road.
The protesters alleged that their pleas to people's representatives and department officers to take early action and undertake urgent repairs to the fisheries road had fallen on deaf ears.
Over 40 buses belonging to different prestigious schools and colleges and several public buses ply on this route that lies in a deplorable condition with several potholes and asphalt that has peeled away.
Addressing the protesters, entrepreneur Pramod Madwaraj said that the state fisheries minister and district-in-charge minister will be pressurized to instruct the concerned department to undertake urgent repairs to the road.
HMC United founder Shakil Honnala, Honnala Nagarika Horata Samiti president Chandrashekar Shetty, Mustaq Saheb, ZP member Mallika B Poojary, TP member Keshav Kumar, and Varamballi gram panchayat president S Narayan were present on the occasion.
The road blockade disrupted traffic from Uppinakote and Honnala locality headed for NH 66.
Harady G M Vidhyaniketan School and Dr A V Baliga College announced a holiday on account of the protest.
The shops in the locality of Doopadakatte and Honnala were closed to express solidarity with the protesters.