Citizens upset with MCC’s apathy towards repairing key road

Mysuru: On either side of the road leading to the small-scale industrial hub in Yadavagiri, one often spots mounds of garbage, a sight that makes commuters and pedestrians question the Heritage City’s performance in the Swachh Survekshan – Mysuru was adjudged the third cleanest city in India in 2019. In addition to the piles of trash, the road is riddled by potholes turning travelling on the street into anything but a pleasant experience.
“Construction debris, waste from restaurants and tubelights are among the items dumped on the sides of this road. The sorry condition of the road is one of the reasons why autodrivers are very reluctant to use it. Many of them have, in fact, stopped coming here,” said Lokesh, who works at a goods shed in Yadavagiri.
The road, which is over half a kilometre long, is used by hundreds of residents employed in the factories in Yadavagiri every day. Despite repeatedly drawing the attention of the civic authorities to the pathetic state of the road, their apathy has left them infuriated. That the road, despite being used regularly by personnel attached to the VV Puram police station, has not been repaired attests to the indifference of the officials concerned.
V Ravi Kumar, an autodriver in the city, said that he was forced to use the road at the passengers’ behest. “I really want to know if the officials in the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) are blind. Why have they failed to repair this road, which has been in a poor state for so long? It is really disappointing,” said Kumar.
On being informed about the condition of the road, MCC commissioner Shilpa Nag told TOI, “I have seen the photographs of the road, and have brought it to the notice of our engineers. We will repair this road at the earliest, and solve this longstanding problem.”