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Residents of Manganur panchayat successful Gandharvakkottai taluk person appealed to the State transport authorities for an further evening bus, saying schoolchildren are forced to locomotion astir 4 km from the nearest autobus halt done a deserted agelong with nary thoroughfare lighting.
Manganur, a colony adjacent Kandharvakottai that is location to implicit 1,000 radical and the decades-old St. Sebastian Church, is served by a fistful of authorities buses connected the Gandharvakottai –Vadukkapatti –Manganur route.
Locals and students accidental the greeting services — which halt astatine the colony astatine 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. — are inadequate, and determination is nary mid-morning transportation that would assistance pupils travelling to schools successful Gandharvakottai, Thachankurichi and Sengipatti.
The much acute problem, villagers say, is the instrumentality journey. “School finishes astatine 4.30 p.m. successful galore of the towns wherever we study,” said A. Dayana, a pupil who attends a backstage schoolhouse successful Thachankurichi. “The buses halt astatine the Manganur arch driblet constituent lone astatine 4 p.m. and 4.20 p.m. After that the adjacent autobus is precocious successful the evening. We person to locomotion from the arch to the colony successful the dark. It is unsafe, particularly for girls,” she said.
Villagers constituent retired that the arch halt wherever astir buses intermission is astir 4 km from Manganur. That stretch, they say, is mostly unlit and sparsely populated; students returning connected ft often walk done isolated patches wherever incidents of harassment person been reported.
“For the information and payment of our children, we person repeatedly asked the transport section for a autobus astatine 6.30 p.m. via Kandharvakottai to driblet students wrong the village,” said societal activistic Arokiya Daniel.
When contacted, a elder serviceman of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation successful Pudukkottai said the substance would beryllium examined.
