Irate residents of Bajal region in Mangaluru have found a novel way to vent out their anger against the administration over the inordinate delay in completing the road-under-bridge on Padil-Bajal Road near Mangaluru Junction Railway Station here.
On Sunday, they erected a banner and performed mock pooja, inaugurating a “swimming pool and mosquito breeding centre,” as the incomplete work has caused water to stagnate beneath the Railway tracks.
The RuB work was taken up in last August and was expected to be completed by this February. Though the Railways has completed work on its portion by pushing concrete boxes, the approach road on Bajal side is yet to be constructed.
The Southern Railway has squarely blamed the Mangaluru City Corporation for the delay, stating it did not submit modified designs for the approach road. Despite repeated reminders to Corporation Commissioner, the matter was not resolved.
District in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai recently blamed the recently-transferred Commissioner Hepsiba Rani Korlapati for the delay. Former Mayor Shashidhar Hegde said the Commissioner sat on the file for over three months.
Mr. Rai said the modified designs are being submitted to the Railways immediately. Railways however, would not take up the work till the monsoons end.
