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Rain-battered roads cry for attention in Eluru

Photo: AVG Prasad

A badly damaged road at Kattepuveedi in Eluru. —

ELURU: Threat of yet another cyclone casts over the district much before the administration gets its act together to undo the damage caused to infrastructure network by the recurring floods and rains in the district.

The road at Katteput Street with punctures all along in I-Town in the city seemingly remains a mute witness to the bruises inflicted by the nature. Same is the case with the Eluru-Kaikaluru Road near Sriparru.

As the road was subjected to severe battering by the floods of Tammileru a week ago, one side of the road was eroded, giving anxious moments to the people travelling on the road. It’s crying for official attention.

The infrastructure became the target of battering rains and floods twice within a month. The causeways near Ameenapet on the Eluru-Nuzvid road and at Sriparru on the Eluru-Kaikaluru road were badly damaged by the floods of Tammileru, forcing district Collector G. Jayalakshmi to send proposals to the government for construction of bridges as a substitute to the causeways.

The bad shape of roads in the city came under a sharp focus at a recent meeting of the Municipal Corporation of Eluru. A section of corporators assailed the MCE authorities for their laxity in undertaking repairs to the damaged roads. The road for a stretch near rytu bazar, on which Mayor Tadigadapa Rama Rao goes to office from home every day, was full of potholes. Yet, the municipal officials allegedly failed to shed their apathy, they criticised. The condition of the road leading to Powerpet via Srinivasa Mahal was also cited as one of the worst roads that tasted the nature’s fury as well as indifference by the officials.

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