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Daijiworld Media Network — Mangalore (RD/CN)
Mangalore, Jan 6: The activists of Tulunada Rakshana Vedike staged a protest rally from Mahakalipadpu guarded railway crossing to Morgans Gate here on Thursday January 6 urging the municipal authority to act upon various issues.
The issues comprised improving the underground drainage facility in the locality, undertaking urgent repairs to the access road that links to the Mangalore–Thiruvananthapuram national highway, and improving the conditions of civic employees living in the housing colony in the locality among others.
The Vedike also urged the railway authorities to close the gate at Mahakalipadpu crossing only a few minutes prior to the arrival or departure of trains, since the serpentine traffic queues impede the movement of ambulances carrying ailing patients. Currently, the gates are closed for traffic well before the trains pass-by.