By Aishwarya Beejady
Daijiworld Media Network—Kundapur (RD)
Kundapur, Jul 8: The local residents of Kumbashi gram panchayat, near here, led by social welfare and voluntary organizations and auto rickshaw drivers, staged a unique protest by planting saplings on the deplored Kome main road that passes beside Koravadi water tank to the west of the seashore on Saturday July 7.
The road was laid at a cost of Rs 99,000 under the taluk panchayat’s unallocated funds two months ago. It’s a vital link for over 2,000 people living in 100 households in the neighbourhood. It’s due to the deplored condition of the road that students and devotees visiting the neighbouring temple and the physically handicapped had to face the brunt. Pleas to local people’s representatives and the village council to undertake urgent repairs were in vain.
A local auto rickshaw driver Raghavendra Kanchan complained that the road is unfit for motoring and the village council cites a shortage of funds in carrying out urgent repairs.
The locals Raghavendra Kanchan, Vijay, Chandra, and Nagaraj led the protest.