Madurai Reader’s Mail
The Hindu
Madurai Reader’s Mail
Poor condition of Bypass Road
Though the stretch of Bypass Road from SS Colony (Navalar Nagar) to RTO Office is wide enough, it is underutilised as heaps of excavated soil, huge pits, uneven road surface, parked vehicles and iron pipes on the roadside have occupied vast portions of carriage space. All these have made the road very narrow. A slight drizzle results in slush and the service road becomes totally unusable.As there is no provision for draining of rainwater, it stagnates along the roads forming puddles, putting pedestrians and vehicles users into difficulty. Civic and Highways authorities must remove the dumped items, excavated soil and smoothen the surface at this stretch for free flow of traffic.
G. S. Santharam,
Mahatma Gandhi Nagar
Not road-worthy
Apropos the report on bad condition of TNSTC buses in Madurai, the annual inspection of school buses for their fitness by Collector and transport officials is like playing a joke on passengers. As rightly observed, most of the 650 buses in the city are not road-worthy.
K. P. Natarajan,
The Opposition Congress demanded that the government open the Gandhi Vatika Museum, depicting Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy and freedom struggle, built at a cost of ₹85 crore in Jaipur’s Central Park last year, during the Congress-led regime in Rajasthan. The museum has not been opened to the public, reportedly because of the administration’s engagements with the State Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.