Mangalore: Malemar Road Turns into Slushy Field - Locals Plant Banana Tree!
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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (RS/SP)
Mangalore, Jun 9: The City Corporation, which has shown immense enthusiasm in concreting the main roads of the city, has neglected the interior roads. The rain that has been lashing the district since the last two days has suddenly made the citizens of the city to realize the actual condition of the roads in their respective localities.
The two days rainfall in the city has tested the quality of the roads and made many of them un-motorable. The citizens living alongside the Malemar road, which connects Derebail with Kottara Chowki, protested against the City Corporation's apathy in maintaining this road, by planting a banana tree and other plants on the road.
The road turned into a virtual paddy field, with thick slush mixed with rain water forming puddles on the road. The residents, who use this road, lost their road connectivity with the city and were forced to stay indoors and spend their valuable time doing nothing, as no vehicles could move on this road. Some of the residents, who are having their own two wheelers said that they slipped and suffered injuries while trying to negotiate this wretched road.
One of the residents, Umesh, said they had urged their corporator to get the road asphalted during the summer season itself. But the negligence on the part of the corporator and the City Corporation to take timely action has made them to suffer due to the bad condition of the road, they said.
The residents condemned the negligence of the City Corporation, and accused the Corporation of being interested in improving the main roads alone. They held the Corporation responsible for not looking beyond the main roads and doing nothing to improve the roads around which the residents of different localities live.
The residents around the Malemar road are facing the threat of being cut off from the city, as the rainy season progresses.
An engineer in the civil works department in MCC said that the Malemar road had not been asphalted as digging work relating to laying underground drainage was in progrerss. The digging operation had been completed recently but the rains started before the Corporation could repair the road, he revealed.