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The residents of Kottigehara in Mudigere taluk on Sunday noticed a bandh demanding the restore of the Charmadi Ghat stretch of National Highway 73 (Mangaluru-Villipuram) that connects Chikkamagaluru with Dakshina Kannada district. For the final two years, motion of autos on this stretch has been hit by repeated heavy rains and landslips.
The growers, hoteliers, businessmen of Kottigehara had referred to as for a bandh on the day to pressurise the State authorities and elected representatives to restore the road. They additionally took out a protest march on the freeway from Kottigehara. As of now, the motion of heavy autos has been banned on the stretch, affecting enterprise.
Hasanabba, a hotelier at Kottigehara, mentioned that for the final two years, the hoteliers and house owners of petrol bunks and different actions had no enterprise, because the road was closed for a lot of months. “The road offers major connectivity for Dakshina Kannada and the rest of the State. Every day trucks carry vegetables from Chikkamagaluru to Dakshina Kannada. Besides, the people of Mudigere taluk send their children for studies to Dakshina Kannada and for healthcare, we travel to Mangaluru or Manipal via this route. Whenever the road is closed, we face hardships,” he mentioned.
The protesters maintained that earlier too landslips had occurred on the stretch but it surely was restored with out a lot delay. “Now, despite having advanced technology and heavy machinery, the National Highways wing of the Public Works Department has not been able to take up the work to strengthen the road. We, the residents of Kottigehara, demand that the government and elected representatives attend to this issue,” mentioned Sanjay Gowda, who led the protest.
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