from Vinay Pais  
for Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur (SM)

Kundapur, Aug 22: A small stretch on the National Highway 17 from Kundapur to Koteshwar has not been repaired for the past two years. This has caused inconvenience to the public especially to the commuters from Kundapur and Koteshwar.

The progressive thinkers of the Kundapur town under the leadership of Vinay A Pais the former municipal councilor and the former president of the Catholic Council, Kundapur unit took a protest rally to draw the attention of the Government authorities.

Addressing the rally Vinay Pais said that NH 17 is any way better than that of the nineteenth century.

Keshav Koteshwar, the convener of Spoorthi Institute, K C Rajesh secretary, Hussain Haikady of city JCS, Narasimha of DYFI also spoke on the occasion.

The members of the Vidyaranga Mitra Mandali, the union of taluk press reporters, the Rotract Club, the Rotary Sunrise were among the several associations who participated in the protest rally.

Kundapur bus association, taxi drivers’ and auto drivers’ union held a protest and urged to repair the roads within two days and gave a memorandum to N H Engineer Krishna Rao. More than four hundred drivers and owners participated in the protest rally.