Udupi: Nadsal Villagers Oppose NH Proposed Bypass Road at Padubidri
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Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (RD/SB)
Udupi, Jun 15: The residents of Nadsal village under Padubidri gram panchayat staged a rally from Sri Mahalingeshwar temple welcome arch, Padubidri, on National Highway (NH) 17 to the local bus stand, here on Tuesday June 15, urging the NH authorities to shelve the plan of laying bypass road, instead stick to the original plan of building a flyover at Padubidri.
The agitators laid road-blockade at Padubidri town, here for a brief while, causing hindrances to motorists and inter-city buses.
The protestors alleged that influential property owners who had encroached on either side of NH 17 at Padubidri are resisting the NH authorities to build a flyover through their properties, instead pressuring the concerned authorities to work on alternative bypass road, which would put the local peasant community in great hardships.
The protestors demanded that nowhere through the NH 17 from Kundapur to Suratkal, a bypass road has been proposed except flyovers at Katpady, Kaup, Brahmavar and Ucchila among others along the highway, for converting the existing two-lane highway into four-lane.
Meanwhile, the protestors presented a memorandum to tahsildar Prasanna, to forward the same to state administration, urging the government to drop the plan of laying a bypass road at Padubidri, since it causes hardships to many residents from minority community and are not willing to let their lands for the purpose.
Ramdas Nayak, N S Poojary, Nithyanand Shetty, former state minister Vasant V Salian, JDS district president Deviprasad Shetty, Naveenchandra Shetty, Ravindranath G Hegde, Mithun Hegde, Shashikanth, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Hameed and Sattar Saheb among others were present.