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Mangalore: Pandeshwar Road Concreting - Nagarika Samiti Alleges Discrimination

  •   Thu, Oct 22 2009 07:44:18 AM

Mangalore: Pandeshwar Road Concreting - Nagarika Samiti Alleges Discrimination
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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Oct 22: Several residents and shop owners in Pandeshwar, who had vacated their buildings at the behest of the officials and city corporators to see their city develop, are worried a lot now. Owners of nine shops in Ideal complex in Pandeshwar had voluntarily vacated their shops, while the owners of two tiled shops by the side of the complex too had left their shops to pave way for the concreting of the road in their area. They now lament that their sacrifice is likely to go down the drain.

It is now said that the plan of the road widening has been modified to save the compound wall of a private college  located on this road. There are allegations that the road has been diverted by about a metre, with the only purpose of saving the compound wall of the college. A few shop keepers explained, that they had sacrificed their shops, even though the shops were the only sources of income they had, in the best interests of the city's development. They resented the Corporation's action in making changes in the plan of the road to save the compound wall of the college, overlooking the sacrifices made by several of the residents.










Nagarika Hitarakshana Samiti president, Hanumant Kamat, said that the extension of the road in no way touches any buildings of the College. But just because the present plan envisages demolition of a part of the compound wall and the adjacent canteen of the college, the City Corporation is plotting to change the plan, which is wrong, he opined.

He said that this has been brought to the notice of the district deputy commissioner, V Ponnuraj. The deputy commissioner, while concurring that the college has requested for changing the course of the road as it creates problems for the movement of vehicles, said that he would personally visit the spot and initiate further steps thereafter.

In the meanwhile, assistant executive engineer in the City Corporation, Linge Gowda, who has been supervising the concreting work, said that the plan of A B Shetty Circle - Mangaladevi Road concreting has not yet been finalized. IDF, the technical advisors for the concreting work, has submitted a proposal. Steps will be taken after verifying the proposal, he clarified.
  

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  • Imtiaz Mohammed Hyder, Mangalore

    Fri, Oct 23 2009

    Yes, interesting, with good thinking atleast our Pandeshwar in Mangalore supposed to have itseems Road widening Plan, but how far how soon has to be seen... but at the expense of poor shopkeepers and roadside roofs of poor peoples houses, all sacrifice these people to do should not go in vain, just only to benefit a College and it's canteen ? whatever the steps being taken if given good result that the Roads on pandeshwar if really gets widened those people who have sacrificed their shops and houses would be happy too .. please keep in mind this and do the needful as early as possible.

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  • Imtiaz Mohammed Hyder, Mangalore

    Fri, Oct 23 2009

    Yes, interesting, with good thinking atleast our Pandeshwar in Mangalore supposed to have itseems Road widening Plan, but how far how soon has to be seen... but at the expense of poor shopkeepers and roadside roofs of poor peoples houses, all sacrifice these people to do should not go in vain, just only to benefit a College and it's canteen ? whatever the steps being taken if given good result that the Roads on pandeshwar if really gets widened those people who have sacrificed their shops and houses would be happy too .. please keep in mind this and do the needful as early as possible.

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  • Nadim, Mangalore, Jeddah

    Fri, Oct 23 2009

    I appreciate the road works are atleast in progress, it is better than having no roads at all.Having good roadways is very important for the development of the city, for the devlopment of Mangalore we need more investors to invest and this is posssible only with good roadways.

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  • Rohan, Mangalore

    Thu, Oct 22 2009

    These works will take another 3-4 years to complete!!!

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  • Ganesh, Mangalore

    Thu, Oct 22 2009

    Hello Sir, I really appreciate your concern over Mangalore's well being. But how long has it been you come to Mangalore?. Try travelling from udupi to ullal. Reality bites.

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  • pavan, Mangalore|Pune

    Thu, Oct 22 2009

    I visited Mangalore 2 weeks back. But the sad thing is not even single project is completed. People are walking on the roads. Who will make footpath? I felt earlier Mangalore was looks ok when I compare to today's.

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  • Aadil Khan, Kasaragod, Saudi Arabia

    Thu, Oct 22 2009

    I admire state administration's initiatives of improving city roads. The Pandeshwar road is a very important one as the centurary old Mangala Devi temple has hundreds of devotees coming on a daily basis and the vehicular movements are heavy. Moreover,the road is narrow and has lot of pot holes. An upgrade is the need of the hour. Keep up the good work, Mangalore Corporation and State BJP minister.

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  • Gladys Mudarth, Pandeshwar,Mangalore

    Thu, Oct 22 2009

    Inconvenience to many. The work is done in the night and the old and sick spend sleepless nights. Can this be looked into please. Thank you.

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  • jagadishachappa, bengaluru

    Thu, Oct 22 2009

    i feel very sad that in the name of development we are loosing our environment.for a simple road widening they cut the trees.there is plan at all.

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