Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SB)
Mangaluru, Mar 30: Ahead of the promised council meeting, the people of Kankanady-Valencia ward including residents of Red Building lane on Thursday, March 30 staged a protest over the road widening issue in their ward at Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC).
Addressing the protesters, member of action committee Antony Maxim said, "The council meeting will be held in a short while from now. We are staging protest here demanding the cancellation of the road widening project. Hence, we also request corporator Asha D'Silva to withdraw the road widening proposal."
"Around 95 percent of the houses in the lane will be under the threat of demolition if the project gets a green signal. This project should be cancelled immediately," he added.
Nirmala Suveer, Suveer Isaac, Ullas Rasquinha and P Vishawanath were present.
The residents are up in arms against the corporator over the road widening project that would expand the road to 30 ft (about 9 m). The residents claim that the project would affect a large number of families living in the locality. In a press meet recently, the action committee had alleged that a petition was 'doctored' to attest that the residents had demanded the road widening, and blaming the corporator for this, the committee had said that the project was thrust upon the residents even when they did not want it.
More details awaited.