Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) activists picketed the office of the Public Works Department (North Zone) at Mananchira here on Tuesday in protest against the apathy of the department in repairing a stretch of Mavoor Road from the Kozhikode Medical College to Thondayad Bypass junction.
The group led by the DYFI Town Block Committee secretary K.V. Pramod and president K. Rajesh barged into the office of the Chief Engineer K.V. Asaf who was chairing a meeting at around 12.30 p.m.
The slogan-shouting protesters demanded that the PWD authorities give in writing that they would repair the road immediately.
AssuranceThe protest continued for more than half-an-hour till the Executive engineer (Roads Division) N.B. Habeeb Rehman assured them in writing that the patchworks on the road would be carried out from Wednesday and that the tendering process would be done on June 16.
The digging of the arterial road for laying pipes of the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) has been blamed for the dilapidated condition of the road linking the medical college to the city.
Potholes have developed in most places. Even pedestrians find it difficult to cross the road.
Their hardship worsened with the onset of monsoon.
Students of the Medical College Campus High School, Presentation School, Chevayur Upper Primary School, Devagiri Public School and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan have to pass through this road.
Initially the road was dug for laying sewage pipes from the medical college to the Canolly canal.
The work is almost complete except at Thondayad junction.
Later, the KWA also began digging the roads for laying its pipes.
