Residents of Varthur and Gunjur staged a peaceful protestation connected Saturday, demanding pothole-free roads and urgent improvement of the Varthur–Gunjur stretch, which has go hazardous owed to mediocre maintenance.
The protestation was organised successful beforehand of Prestige Lakeside Habitat, wherever residents, including children and elder citizens, stood with placards calling for safer roads. Protestors cited repeated accidents and a caller incidental of a schoolhouse autobus breaking down arsenic examples of the civic messiness successful the area. Their demands see resurfacing of the road, installation of postulation signals and turn-over, and semipermanent infrastructure upgrades.
Though the protestors did not artifact traffic, constabulary did not licence residents to stitchery successful ample numbers to protest. Citizens said they were lone seeking their basal rights to harmless roads; however, they were stopped by the constabulary who argued that Freedom Park is the lone designated spot to protest.
Residents of the country said they person protested aggregate times against mediocre infrastructure, including unsafe potholes and terrible postulation congestion, owed to a deficiency of improvement that has failed to support gait with the area’s accelerated residential growth.
Pavitra Holla, 1 of the residents, speaking to The Hindu, said that precocious a schoolhouse autobus had astir toppled owed to the atrocious information of the road, and sewage was overflowing successful the area. She added that elder citizens were incapable to locomotion owed to the mediocre roadworthy conditions.
Residents person been told for a agelong clip that the problems would beryllium solved and the roads made pothole-free. Some are trying to nexus our protestation to politics, but it is not political, she said.
