Digging Never Stops in M’luru! Now It’s MCC’s Turn to lay Drainage Pipe
Mangaluru: One thing for sure, that you’ll all agree with me is that-Digging of roads/streets/bye-lanes will never stop in Mangaluru no matter what- and we have seen it and will see in future too. Without proper planning new roads are constructed, and after a while the new roads are dug to lay cables- couple of months ago the whole stretch of City street from Karavali Circle (Kankanady Pumpwell) till Hamilton Circle was to install new 33-KV power cable, a project of Mangaluru Electricity Supply Company (Mescom). This initiative has been taken up by Mescom due to frequent disruptions in power supply due to bad weather, falling of tree branches, and other reasons.
But the mess created by Mescom, traffic and pedestrians faced the brunt of it. While the digging work was in progress pedestrians had a tough time to walk on the footpaths or cross the roads. There were interlock bricks scattered all over and dug up mud is blocking pedestrians movement. As per Mescom officials, the toughest task they had to face was while they are shifting existing power poles and installing new 33-KV power cables, since many commercial complexes, educational institutions, hospitals etc are located on this project line.
Although Mescom had completed their work, they have still not fixed the dug up holes or put the interlocks in their original condition. And now there is digging work going on between Liquid Lounge Pub and Crystal Arc building on Balmatta Road, where the workers are laying a bigger size drainage pipe for the smooth flow of drainage/sewage water from the nearby businesses and houses. Speaking to Team Mangalorean, one of the supervisors at the site said, since the old drainage pipe was only six inches thick, there used be block and overflow of sewage water. So the MCC had decided to lay bigger size pipe in order to cover a distance of 70 meters. The work should be done tomorrow”.
So until the work is fully completed, pedestrians have to bear with all these inconveniences and also there would be traffic snarls which will be an added nightmare on this stretch of road. Another thing is a that why MCC had to wait on this work so long- and now that monsoon has started it’s already a mess there- with slush and dirty mud getting onto the road. Now that the stretch of this road/footpath has been dug, it will be a long long time before they are fully restored to the original condition- and that has been the situation in the past and will also be in future too?