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Residents of Gurupura Kaikamba started a dharna connected February 16 to request an elevated roadworthy (flyover) alternatively of a vehicular overpass (VOP) for Mangaluru-Solapur National Highway 169 done Kaikamba. They stated that the VOP divides the town.
While the National Highways Authority of India has been widening NH 169 betwixt Bikarnakatee successful Mangaluru and Sanoor successful Karkala to 4 lanes, it has projected a VOP astatine Gurupura Kaikamba, a increasing suburb, betwixt Mangaluru metropolis and Moodbidri. The up and down ramps for the VOP tally for astir 1 kilometre each successful some directions, thereby walling the town.
Assembled nether the banner of Kaikamba Nagarika Horata Samithi, the residents demonstrated placards, chanting “Bedave beda, Tadegode beda” (we don’t privation the preventive wall) and “Tade gode nirmana, Kaikambada nirnama” (the preventive partition volition destruct Kaikamba).
The residents privation the elevated road, which starts adjacent Kandottu from the Mangaluru side, to extremity astatine Kaikamba Market, thereby ensuring that beingness beneath does not get disturbed by the “wall”. If the elevated roadworthy is not constructed, the commercialized activities of Kaikamba municipality volition get destroyed. Further, people, including students and devotees visiting spiritual places astir the area, volition person to locomotion for a agelong region to avail buses and different nationalist transport services, the residents fear.
The Samithi has decided to proceed the dharna till February 19. If it does not get immoderate due effect from the authorities acrophobic addressing the issues, a mega nationalist gathering volition beryllium organised astatine Kaikamba connected February 20, said Samithi president Vijaya J. Suvarna.
