The Hindu

MANGALORE, Sep 7: Deputy Commissioner M. Maheshwar Rao has issued a notification directing diversion of traffic to facilitate concreting of a stretch between Mangala Nursing Home and Bendorewell.

The road development work has been taken up by Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) under assistance from the Asian Development Bank.

The traffic diversion will be in force from Monday till the completion of work on the stretch.

According to the notification, the buses coming from Puttur, B.C. Road or Kasargod should ply through Pumpwell (Mahaveer) Circle via Old Kankanadi Road and Falnir Road to reach State Bank of India. The route number 5 buses could ply from Morgan Gate to reach Kankanadi Circle and Falnir Road.

The city, service and KSRTC buses destined towards Karavali Cirlce from State Bank of India via Ambedkar Circle, Balamatta Circle should reach Horticulture Junction and divert to the right and reach Karavali Circle.

Buses coming from Udupi and Karkala can reach State Bank of India via Nanthur-Mallikatte and Bunts Hostel. Buses going to KSRTC Bus Stand in Bejai from Pumpwell can go via Bendorewell, Mallikatte and Bunts Hostel.

The notification said that there would be no parking on either side of the stretch between Horticulture Circle and Balamatta Circle and either side of Old Kankanadi Road between Kankanadi Circle and Pumpwell Circle.