Port Blair, Nov 11 2020
The residents of Wimberlygunj have joined hands with LOTE and Human Touch to repair the stretch of road between DFO Office, Wimberlygunj to Fish Market, Wimberlygunj.
The road between this stretch and beyond has been in very dilapidated state since a very long time. Recently the same road was featured all over the social media with people trying their hands on fishing in the pot holes. Further some residents even tried growing some agricultural crops on the road.
The move was to sarcastically protest against the negligence of the authorities towards the repair of the road. The move resulted in the Andaman Public Works Department filling the potholes with mud, sand and dust. The temporary repair lasted for a few days before the recent rains carried all the fillings away and the potholes reappeared.
The residents are now spreading the word through social media, for other people of the area to join their movement of repairing the road. The planned repair of the roads is scheduled to be held on 12th of November 2020 from 8:30 Pm.
The message circulated by the residents calls for other residents to become atmanirbhar and to save themselves and their vehicles by participating to repair the roads.
The said road falls under the jurisdiction of the RCD, Wimberlygunj of Andaman Public Works Department and the tender for the repair of the road was floated way back in October 2018, informed a resident of the Wimberlygunj over phone to Nicobar Times.
The residents have also put forward a unique way to explain their issues to the media, they say that, when there are long hours of power cut, they can buy inverters and generators. When there is supply water shortage, they can call up a tanker to get water, but what can they do about roads, they say we cannot construct alternate road ourselves.
The residents have also decided to livestream the repairing of roads on social media for Islanders to see. The residents feel that the A & N Administration has no concern for them. Taking to Nicobar Times, one person of the area commented that “the roads in Port Blair are re-coated whenever there is a VIP visit, even when there is no VIP visit, finding a pothole in the VIP Road Port Blair seems impossible and on the contrary, there are no roads in our area, there are only pot holes”.
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