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Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner H.V. Darshan took a vessel thrust connected the Netravathi to inspect a breached footbridge connecting Ullal Hoige and Kochi-Panvel National Highway 66 crossed the backwaters connected Wednesday.
Residents of Ward No. 54 of Mangaluru City Corporation, Ullal Hoige, made usage of the footbridge to scope the road adjacent Netravathi span by ft aft crossing the Mangaluru-Shoranur railway lines. The footpath and the footbridge served arsenic the shortcut for pedestrians to scope the highway, who are present forced to instrumentality a detour of implicit 5 km to scope the road adjacent Thokkottu.
Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner H.V. Darshan and Mangaluru City Corporation Commissioner Ravi Chandra Naik travelled by a vessel connected the Netravathi to inspect a breached footbridge crossed its backwaters adjacent Ullal Hoige successful Mangaluru connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
As the metallic footbridge remained breached for implicit 4 years, The Hindu had highlighted the plight of residents doubly successful these columns. More than 300 families reside successful Ullal Hoige country and galore of them depended upon the footbridge for their regular commute. They had urged the medication to either repair the breached operation oregon get a caller 1 constructed.
Mr. Darshan took a vessel on with MCC Commissioner Ravi Chandra Naik to sojourn the footbridge site. A determination connected either restoration oregon reconstruction would beryllium taken soon aft obtaining method opinion, the DC said.
