Pics: Spoorthi Ullal
Daijiworld Media Network-Mangaluru (RJP)
Mangaluru, Sep 16: When people in Mangaluru city have been complaining about potholes on roads, bigger potholes in the form of craters are not uncommon. One such crater on Kulur Ferry Road near BEM School looks like a pond. Residents of this road protested on Wednesday, September 16 in a special way complaining about this mega crater.
The residents treated the crater as a pond and did the act of fishing in the crater with fishing rod. Some took off their shirts to swim. A few artificial ducks were let out in the dirty muddy pond.
The residents said that they have been complaining about the crater for a long time. But no action was taken. Today they saw mud being brought from outside in a lorry and being dumped into the crater in the name of ‘repair’ the crater. Mangaluru municipal corporation (MCC) did this emergency ‘repair’ work, said residents.
Without knowing whom else to complain to and as they were tired of complaining so many times, the frustrated residents resorted to this special protest. But the police warned them and stopped the protest.
Muddy crater still stands as it is near the ‘Don’t drink and drive’ message on the barricade kept by the city police.