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The District Development Committee (DDC) gathering present connected Saturday (September 27) raised concerns implicit the rising fig of accidents connected National Highway 66. It urged strict adherence to information measures successful presumption of enhanced conveyance velocity connected NH 66.
The DDC informing follows a fatal mishap connected Friday nighttime (September 26) astatine V.K. Padi adjacent Thalappara successful which 2 Dars students were killed and 3 others injured. The mishap was a fallout of a lorry illegally parked connected the highway. The gathering pointed retired that vehicles were travelling astatine precocious velocity on NH 66, arsenic 99% of the operation enactment successful the territory was complete.
MLAs K.P.A. Majeed and V. Abdul Hameed said that trucks should ne'er beryllium allowed to parkland connected the nationalist highway. “Yesterday’s gruesome mishap was a effect of amerciable motortruck parking,” they said. They demanded that cameras beryllium installed instantly to forestall vehicles from illegally entering and exiting. Such incorrect entries and exits origin hazards and accent to motorists, they said.
The gathering noted that the territory witnessed 18 cases of amoebic meningoencephalitis this year, and determination were 5 deaths. District Medical Officer R. Renuka said that 50% of the unfastened wells successful the territory were chlorinated arsenic portion of a determination to forestall the dispersed of the disease.
District Collector V.R. Vinod presided implicit the meeting. MLAs P. Ubaidulla, K.P.A. Majeed, U.A. Latheef and P. Abdul Hameed, Additional District Magistrate N.M. Meharali, District Planning Officer A.D. Joseph, and respective district-level officials attended the meeting.
