For the second day, many students of government schools in Nellivasalnadu boycotted classes demanding better road facility on Tuesday. The road linking Singarapettai to Pudurnadu was in a bad shape for several years.
According to the residents of Pudurnadu, students of government high school in Puliyur, high school and elementary school in Nellivasal, elementary schools in Malaiyandipatti, Malaitirupattur, Kombai, Melvoor and middle school in Kizhvoor were boycotting classes to put forward their demand for a better road.
A. Thukkan, a resident of Pudur village, said the 35 kilometre-long Pudurnadu-Singarapettai road was formed in 1947. “It was a mud road, and the Forest Department said it will maintain it. But the department has failed to lay the road properly, and it has been left in a bad shape in the last five to six years,” he said.
He added that the students from 32 villages have to travel on this road to reach Pudurnadu to continue higher secondary education in the Pudurnadu HSS.
“It is very difficult for vehicles including buses to ply on this stretch. Rains worsen the condition. If people have to travel to Tirupattur Town, they have to ply on this road to reach Pudurnadu. It will be better if the Highways Departments takes up maintenance of the road,” he said.
