Suvarna Brahmavar

Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Nov 11: The concerned had repeatedly been warned about a major trouble brewing for the town in the form of the incipient glitch in the highway design through various forums since the last sometime. Attempts made to attract the attention of the concerned about the need to take remedial steps sufficiently in advance to avert crisis-like situation at the last moment had failed to succeed in their aim.

The problem has acquired serious proportions now. People and organizations had been reiterating their concern about the gravity of the situation which has been caused because of faulty highway expansion design at the town. As the authorities who matter did not take the issue into account with the seriousness it deserves, the general public have begun to feel the heat of official apathy since Monday November 9.

In the past, attention of the concerned had been attracted towards the traffic chaos that might result in Brahmavar on account of the highway work. Officials of the departments, contractors, people's representatives as well as the people in general turned a blind eye to these prediction, and they had failed to shed a sense of callous apathy they had about this issue. As if to prove the longstanding belief that people wake up to the problem only after it starts to breathe down out necks, people have begun to realize the disastrous consequences of their negligence now!

Works to provide connectivity from the highway to the underpass built near the community health centre at Brahmavar has been going on at brisk pace since a couple of days. As such, buses coming from the direction of Udupi have been offloading passengers on the left side of the road, as they are unable to enter the bus stand now. The passengers, after they get down, become listless about what to do next.

There had been umpteen attempts to warn the concerned about the problem being mammoth, as this design obstructs movement of vehicles coming from the direction of Udupi into Brahmavar bus stand, and there is no clarity on how should the vehicles bound for Kunjalu and nearby places move, as this road is connected to highway near the bus stand. No one cared to consider these questions, and the current design does not seem to be having any solution or answer to these questions. In a couple of days, most likely the work of connecting underpass to the highway would be completed. What next? No one seems to know.

People have begun to seriously think whether Brahmavar had earned the boon of Lord Brahma as it is believed, or his curse, taking cue from the current turn of events. One hopes that the concerned would respond to the problems facing the general public at least now, and pave way for smooth traffic in this fast-growing town, which is also located at a strategic point from where roads to different destinations in the east branch out.