Residents rally for service roads on city stretch of Tiruchi-Thanjavur National Highway

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The rally nether  mode   adjacent   Kattur successful  Tiruchi connected  Monday.

The rally nether mode adjacent Kattur successful Tiruchi connected Monday. | Photo Credit: R. VENGADESH

Members of Tiruchi-Palpannai-Thuvakudi Service Road Meetpu Kootamaippu and representatives of governmental parties and different organisations took retired a rally successful the metropolis connected Monday to property for the operation of work lanes on the Tiruchi-Thanjavur National Highway.

The residents surviving on the road person been demanding operation of services lanes connected the 14.5-km agelong from Palpannai to Thuvakudi, portion spot owners, who look displacement owed to the project, person been opposing the onshore acquisition.

Amid increasing resentment implicit the hold successful gathering the work lanes, the residents’ federation called for the rally to item their demands. The rally was taken retired from Urumu Dhanalakshmi College Bus Stop to Kailash Nagar Bus Stop. Those marching successful the rally carried placards, highlighting their request and the sufferings of radical owed to predominant accidents and questioning the hold successful gathering the work lanes contempt the efforts of the MLA and MP.

Residents person been demanding operation of the work lanes arsenic per a 2019 absorption of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court. Numerous agitations and protests person been organised connected the contented implicit the past 15 years.

Although the State Highways Department agreed to physique the work lanes with NHAI funding, onshore acquisition for the task is yet to beryllium completed.

Published - October 13, 2025 05:25 p.m. IST

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