The Karnataka authorities, particularly the administration of its capital Bengaluru, has drawn criticism but once more after a number of college students within the metropolis’s Panathur space needed to reportedly skip faculty and return residence after getting caught in visitors for a very long time on Wednesday. Residents of the locality, together with the college college students, even held a candlelight protest towards the incident.
The problem was first dropped at gentle by a residents group on Twitter for the Balagere area, which posted visuals of the residents’ plight on Wednesday. “The apathy is inflicting severe hardships to #Balagere residents, a by no means ending struggling. Is that this Civic/ Civil. this clarification reqd from our beloved leaders of this #PanathurBalagere stretch. At present’s saga the place Site visitors, commuters, Youngsters, faculty buses had been present in shambles! (sic)” it tweeted, in a thread full of images displaying enormous visitors jams.
A candlelight protest was held within the locality, visuals of which made rounds on social media and caught the eye of many together with Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Mohandas Pai, chairman of Manipal International Training. A web page referred to as ‘Residents Motion, East Bengaluru’, requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s in Bengaluru, to go to this space as a substitute of the airport.
The Panathur RUB junction has been notorious for its visitors congestion up to now with residents requesting for widening of the street a number of instances. Sangappa Desai, a resident of the locality, additionally shared the video of the protest, which was then taken up by Mohandas Pai, who stated, “State of our roads, @narendramodi Sir pl assist!”
Tagging Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and a number of other others, he continued, “Is there hope in any respect in Bengaluru? What are police doing to clear visitors? They’ve the tech!”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the manager chairperson of Biocon Restricted additionally tweeted, “Do the authorities even care? Residents must preserve shaming them into motion.” “Once we say authorities it’s the bottom degree officers – you possibly can’t blame politicians. The contractors should be held accountable by authorities however they don’t,” she added.
A number of extra visuals had been shared by one other Twitter person, who wrote that the Balagere street is a nightmare and that it takes two hours to journey 5 kilometres.
“..Youngsters caught for hours to achieve colleges, faculty buses returned again after caught in loopy visitors,” she tweeted.
(Bengaluru visitors police was not instantly accessible for remark. This report will likely be up to date with the identical shortly.)