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The residents of Kuttaiyur, a distant hamlet connected the Tamil Nadu–Karnataka border, proceed to beryllium connected Karnataka for their regular needs owed to the lack of roadworthy connectivity and a span crossed a wood stream.
Villagers accidental the contented tin beryllium resolved lone if a span is built and autobus services are extended from the nearest habitation to their village.
Kuttaiyur, with astir 450 residents, comes nether the Bargur panchayat successful Anthiyur taluk, portion Makkampalayam falls nether the Koothampalayam panchayat successful Sathyamangalam taluk. Bus services from Kadambur run lone up to Makkampalayam, located 5 k.m. away. Villagers and students trust connected a pickup van from Karnataka to scope Makkampalayam.
The wood roadworthy is constrictive and gravel-strewn, crossing a watercourse that often carries water. During the rains, the conveyance from Karnataka avoids Kuttaiyur and proceeds straight to Makkampalayam. Students past miss schoolhouse and workers enactment home.
“This happens each twelvemonth from October to January,” said a Class 9 student. “All we request is simply a road, a span crossed the stream, and a autobus work to our village,” the pupil added.
As commuting to Makkampalayam is difficult, villagers transverse the Palar stream to scope Jallipalayam successful Karnataka, astir 2 km away, to bargain essentials and entree aesculapian care.
“We beryllium connected Karnataka for everything but schooling,” said a resident. During the monsoon, erstwhile the stream overflows, the colony remains wholly chopped off. “We’ve depended connected Karnataka for years. It indispensable change, astatine slightest for our children,” different villager said.
During elections, officials from Anthiyur question 83 km to scope the Government Tribal Residential Middle School, which serves arsenic the polling booth. Poll materials are transported done Karnataka — 54 k.m. via Bargur Hills to Kargekandi successful Chamarajanagar district, past 24 k.m. to Jallipalayam earlier crossing the borderline into Tamil Nadu to scope Kuttaiyur.
Students survey up to Class 8 successful the village, question to Makkampalayam for Classes 9 and 10, and to Kadambur for higher secondary education. Villagers are charged ₹20 per trip, portion students wage ₹10 to scope Makkampalayam. They said they often miss classes and examinations during the rainy play owed to a deficiency of transport, and urged the authorities to supply roadworthy connectivity.
Anthiyur MLA A.G. Venkatachalam told The Hindu that proposals for constructing a span crossed the wood watercourse and for laying a road, some astatine a outgo of ₹6.5 crore, person been submitted to the government. “A connection for a span adjacent Velampatti astatine a outgo of ₹ 7 crore is besides nether consideration. Once completed, connectivity issues successful borderline villages volition beryllium resolved,” helium said.
