Bharani Nagar in Tirunelveli waits for roads indefinitely

Bharani Nagar residents in Tirunelveli face road woes, seek help from officials for black-top roads and job opportunities.

Despite being located in the heart of the city, Bharani Nagar on North Bypass Road with more than 1,000 middle class families is waiting indefinitely for proper black-top roads.

Interestingly, this area is represented by councillor Revathi, who is the chairperson of Thatchanallur zone of Tirunelveli Corporation.

The worst part is that the residents’ repeated appeals to their representatives and the official machinery are yet to be heard.

Consequently, the tax-paying residents’ ordeals continue, they complain. With a lot of renewed hopes, a section of the residents of Bharani Nagar submitted one more petition to Collector R. Sukumar on Monday during the weekly grievances redressal meet with the hope that at least this petition would end their sufferings they face every day and it worsens during rains.

“In fact, we pray to God that there should be no rain at least in our area as the roads traversing our colony would become slushy even after 10-minute-long drizzle. No one can negotiate these stretches on the bikes after the rains. Since the slushy roads would be slippery, the bikes would fall down to seriously injure the riders,” said Vijayalakshmi, one of the residents.

Even though the densely populated Bharani Nagar has 25 streets, all these 20-feet-wide roads being used by more than 3,000 students twice a day are still dusty without black-top.

“Besides laying proper roads in our colony, the Tirunelveli Corporation, which has approved our area as residential colony, should form the ‘scheme road’ from Thiruvananthapuram High Road side to our area as it will drastically reduce traffic snarls being caused by the vehicles carrying the students. Moreover, a closed culvert should be built from Thiruvananthapuram Road to our area to avert flooding,” said Ms. Vijayalakshmi.