Residents protest against unscientific Nanthoor Circle, NHAI infrastructure

October 7, 2013

Stanley Pinto, TNN

MANGALORE: Unable to bear the pathetic condition of road at the Nanthoor Junction, the residents of Nanthoor, Bikarnakatte, Bajjodi and Jayashree Gate staged a protest at the Nanthoor Circle here on Thursday.
The unscientific construction of the circle; the road without proper gradient and footpaths have made the lives of the road users and residents miserable. If its slush and pot holes during monsoons, it is dust bath during other times the users have to put up with.

Vasanth Kumar Shetty, administrator of Saanidhya Residential School, Shakthi Nagar for special children says: The work should have finished in 2007 and we are still suffering due to the shoddy work done by NHAI. Last monsoon we contacted NHAI and brought this problem to their notice and this year it was worse. I don’t think they have taken it seriously.

“Our school for day scholars starts at 9.15am. Most of the times students reach after 9.30am. What should take 10 seconds to cross that circle takes half an hour to 45 minutes. Forget technical persons, even a common man knows that the road is unscientific. But still we don’t have any solution from NHAI- even after so many tears,” he said.

Eric Ozario, head of Mandd Sobhann: “The residents were protesting against genuinely bad condition of roads, the unscientific circle, a junction which has no footpaths for pedestrians, no gutter for proper flow of rain water. It’s a chaos of a situation there. I pass that circle four times a day and its pathetic.”

NHAI Project director Shriram Mishra told TOI: The section would be asphalted immediately after rains stop and the problem of rain water overflow will not be there since a fly over will be constructed with a cross drain and footpaths.

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