Rose Mount residents highlight need to widen road

More than a 100 families living in Rose Mount area in Udhagamandalam have appealed to the municipality and the district administration to re-lay and slightly widen a walking path-cum-road leading to t

More than a 100 families living in Rose Mount area in Udhagamandalam have appealed to the municipality and the district administration to re-lay and slightly widen a walking path-cum-road leading to their houses. Local residents said that due to the current width of the path, now measuring less than five-feet wide in some places, emergency vehicles such as ambulances, police vans and even garbage collection trucks are unable to make their way to the households in Rose Mount and Arul Nagar in the locality. S.G. Nicholas, who has been living in the area for the last few decades, said that the residents had made various representations to the Nilgiris district administration, the municipality and even the Chief Minister’s Special Cell. “We believe that the path leading to our locality should be at least twice as wide as its current width. As the path has not been expanded, and vehicles cannot come up to our houses, sick or injured people have to be carried to the main road using improvised stretchers,” said Mr. Nicholas.