Trinath & Tarun Kartick
Billyground, Nov 05: “Road to Hell” is the name given by public to a stretch of road running down from Panchayat Bhavan at Hariagar to Jonardhan Roy’s House at Ward No. 4 of Harinagar Gram Panchayat.
The road is in such a bad shape that people fear crossing the road even in two wheelers.
According to the villagers they have approached the pradhan of the area numerous times to get the repair works done but the pradhan of the area informed them that the road is presently under the Panchayat Samiti and he cannot spend his funds on repairing the road.
After that the villagers approached the Samiti Member of the area, who is also the Pramukh of the region, a number of times but it also did not fetch them fruitful results. Finally the villagers raised the question about the road in the Gram Sabha Meeting but the Pramukh was unable to answer to their questions.
During the recent visit of the Lt Governor to the region the residents had raised the matter infront of him and the LG on the spot asked the Adyksha , Zilla Parishad and the Pramukh for the reasons for delay upon which they explained that 70% of the funds goes to the pradhan and the samiti does not have sufficient funds as required for the maintenance works for the road.
The LG had immediately directed them to transfer the road to the Pradhan of the region if they are not able to maintain it with their funds and not to keep the public suffering.
After the LG direction the villagers felt relived as they thought the work will now be completed soon but it’s been months but still even the tender for the work is not announced and the villagers are still suffering with the same problems.
Neither an auto nor a four wheeler can pass through the Road to Hell as there is always a fear of accidents. The road is the life line for Ward No. 4 and 5 of Harinagar Gram Panchayat but still the authorities are not taking the repair work of the road, seriously. Hope the road will be repaired before the next visit of Lt. Governor.
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