In a real-life instance that perhaps recalls a popular Tamil comedians track in which an actor complains about a missing well, posters offering `10,000 for finding a ‘missing’ tar road connecting Sinna Sengal to Udayakulathupatti through Poovambadi have been put up by irate villagers.
The villagers have offered the ‘bumper prize’ alleging that the condition of the road as appalling and road-users and vehicles are being put to great hardship because of it.
The novel posters have been put up in the villages as well as near the Karur collectorate. The posters seek help in ‘finding’ the road from Sinna Sengal to Poovambadi under the Sengal village panchayat and Poovambadi to Udayakulathupatti under the Old Jayamkondan town panchayat. A local body official said the stretch, which is about 5 km long, was last laid about 20 years ago, and was relaid 15 years back.
Despite a series of petitions and protests by residents pressing for relaying of the road for the past 10 years, the district administration has not paid heed to their demands, the villagers charged.
The road is used by over 5,000 people everyday, while government and private buses are operated along the route to Karur. “For more than 3 km, the road has been filled with gravel and has random humps and pits. If it rains, the road is invariably inundated, resulting in a bumpy ride for commuters. Vehicles are damaged due to the bad condition of the road,” said Sudhakar, a resident.
Officials blamed lack of funds for not renovating the road. However, a proposal, quoting a cost of about `90 lakh, was in 2012 sent under the Integrated Urban Development Mission scheme urging the laying of a new road for 1.9 km, but there was no reply, an official added.
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