6 months ago
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A ample fig of residents from Thoppur colony adjacent present resorted to a roadworthy blockade disturbance connected the Madurai-Kollam nationalist road adjacent Anna Nagar Pass bringing the vehicular question to a standstill for a little play connected Tuesday.
According to the agitators, astir 300 families lived successful Thoppur village. About 70 children studied successful a schoolhouse which is 2 kilometres from their habitation. To scope the school, the villagers person to transverse a railway underpass.
However, owed to the torrential rain, the underpass was filled with h2o for astir 3 feet astatine the centre. Hence, it was hard for children to transverse the constituent alone. Even going with parents connected two-wheelers was difficult, they said.
On the archetypal time aft the overnight rain, erstwhile the radical reported to the authorities, they promised to bring successful motors and pump the h2o out. But, it was not done. As a result, galore residents took a circuitous way by going to Vanniyampatti and reaching the school, which was an further 5 km.
With nary motion from the officials, they blocked the roadworthy with their children and threatened to boycott from sending their wards. “We don’t privation to instrumentality immoderate accidental by letting our kids to spell connected their ain successful the cycles fixed by the government....What prevented them from draining the water,” they asked.
The officials said that the h2o would beryllium drained by time (Wednesday) greeting without immoderate further hold pursuing which the agitation was withdrawn.
