Daijiworld Media Network - Byndoor (SP)

Byndoor, Feb 5: It has been over several years since Kundapur-Karwar four-lane work started. But at most of the stretches of this highway, street lights are not glowing. The contractors have not attended to the problem even though they were repeatedly approached with this problem. The highway is covered with darkness at night at places like Nagur and Shiroor.

In some places, street lights had been installed by local gram panchayats in the old highways. The maintenance was also taken over by the gram panchayats. When the four-lane work was taken up in 2014-15, the lights fixed on the highway were removed. When locals objected, the contract company had said that once the highway work is completed, the street lights would be installed but after the work, lights are burning only at a few places.

Shekhar Kharvi, in charge of Nagarika Vedike Nagur says that the company had claimed that an application for power connection had been filed with Mescom and that they are yet to fix transformers. However, the way it is taking too much time, has given rise to suspicion. He said that street lights have to be installed at the earliest to avoid accidents at night.