Residents of villages living along an important link road, that connects Nandivaram - Guduvancheri Road with Tiruporur, lament that the State government agencies have done little to prevent the severe damage on this road.
Apart from this, the lack of adequate lighting on the road is a major issue, especially for women and senior citizens. Residents living along the stretch — which was relaid a few years ago — said it was dug up for laying drinking water pipelines and subsequently covered with concrete.
But, both the concrete patches as well as the bitumen-laid portion of this 7-kilometre stretch between Pillayar Koil junction in Tirupporur and Sivan Koil in Kattur has been heavily damaged by the non-stop movement of water tankers among other heavy vehicles, according to Raman, a member of Satta Panchayat Iyakkam, Ammapettai village.
If travelling on this road is not an ordeal in itself, poor illumination poses a grave risk for motorists at dusk. Most of the tankers tap water from farm wells in villages located along this road, carrying them to the extended suburbs of Chennai on Rajiv Gandhi Salai and East Coast Road (ECR), Mr. Raman said. He added that repeated appeals to the State government, including the Kancheepuram district administration and local bodies, have not yielded any positive response.
