Tag: Poor Road

The association alleged that due to the bad road condition in the route from Cuttack via Angul to Sambalpur, their vehicles get damaged and it forces them to shell out a huge sum towards maintenance on regular basis.

“People are afraid of travelling on the route due to the poor condition of road and dust. Besides, drivers find it difficult to drive because of the large potholes that damage the buses. If the government fails to take notice of this strike, we will intensify our protest,” said a driver.

Jeypore: Irregularities in repair work of NH-26, particularly the Koraput-Jeypore-Borigumma stretch, have come to the fore after an e-complaint was lodged with the Union Ministry of Road Transport. As per the complaint, the local engineer put patches on the damaged road without doing the proper road work. Following this, the Koraput-Jeypore-Borigumma stretch has become accident-prone […]

Rayagada: Once again poor road connectivity and infrastructure forced a man to carry his ailing sister in arms to the hospital in Kalyansinghpur block of Rayagada district. Bama Sika had to cover a distance of 5 kms on foot to rush his sister Kuni of Parsali panchayat to Kalyansinghpur community health center (CHC) on Saturday. […]

Rayagada: Healthcare services in villages located in Niyamgiri hills under Kalyansinghpur block are in a shambles because of poor road connectivity. As a result, patients are carried in slings and bamboo raft for more than 20 kms to Kalyansinghpur hospital at regular intervals. Though the Rayagada district administration has launched bike ambulance services in the […]

Like darkness under the lamp, in the very backyard of the State’s administrative capital where there are no dearth of engineers, workers and most of all vigilance, shoddy construction of a road seemed to be a tight slap on the government’s tall claims of corruption free development and welfare.

Sonepur: Angered over lack of proper roads, the villagers of Tileimal under Binika block in Sonepur district protested in a novel way today by planting paddy saplings on the kutcha approach road connecting the village. As per reports, Tileimal is located just four kilometres away from the main road and apart from connecting Tileimal; the […]

Bargarh: Absence of motorable roads in the interior pockets of Odisha continues to haunt people, at times to the extent of putting their lives at stake. In one such case, a man of Kantatela village under Bugbuga pachayat in Bargarh district died on his way to hospital allegedly after ambulance failed to reach him on […]

Nabarangpur: Instances of pregnant women being carried in slings and cots to hospitals for delivery due to lack of motorable roads in several interior pockets of the State seem to have become a regular affair. Another such incident has come to the fore on Wednesday when villagers had to use a cot as a stretcher […]