Samiti terms MLAs’ protest a farce, says they are not interested in resolving traffic issues on Ghat road

The Wayanad portion of the Prakrithi Samrakshana Samiti has termed the caller protestation by T. Siddique and I.C. Balakrishnan, MLAs, a farce alleging that they are not truly funny successful resolving the postulation issues connected the Thamarasseri Ghat road.

A gathering of the samiti connected Wednesday pointed retired that neither did they suggest immoderate applicable solutions to resoluteness the changeless postulation congestion connected the ghat roadworthy nor did they unit the authorities to look the existent reasons for the congestion.

The samiti alleged that the MLAs were trying to support vested interests and questioned the indifference of O.R. Kelu, the lone Minister from the district.

The samiti pointed retired that postulation congestion connected the Ghat roadworthy was not caller and that it had escalated implicit a decade. While the authorities was engaged constructing a passageway roadworthy astatine a outgo of ₹2,500 crore, it had neglected the anticipation of processing the 5 ghat roads to Wayanad which would outgo little that ₹500 crore.

“The larger strategy is to guarantee a nationalist outrage implicit postulation congestion, frankincense paving mode for caller roads done the Western Ghats. This would assistance lone the onshore mafia, wood encroachers and edifice owners,” the samiti alleged.

“There are nary attempts to widen the Thamarassery Ghat roadworthy contempt the Forest section sanctioning the development. The trucks connected the roadworthy are overloaded. The Pakramthalam Ghat roadworthy does not travel nether a wood country and hence tin beryllium developed easily. Multi-axle vehicles and goods carriers could beryllium diverted done this road. However, determination person been nary attempts to marque it happen. There person been nary attempts to power the travel of vehicles from different districts to Wayanad dissimilar successful akin elevation stations specified arsenic Ooty. As a effect adjacent the villages successful the territory are experiencing postulation blocks astatine times making mean beingness difficult,” the samithi pointed out.

The gathering was presided implicit by president of the samithi N.Badusha.