Pothole-filled stretch named KTR-Ivanka Trump Rd

SECUNDERABAD: It used to be 'shramdan' of a special kind. Enraged via the state of no activity of the GHMC government in taking up highway upkeep and filling potholes, a motley crew of residents of Marredpally took it upon themselves to transparent the mess on a 40ft highway beside St John's Junior College with reference to the each and every busy Sangeet Crossroads on Sunday via spending Rs four,000. Not preventing at that, they even rechristened the 200-metre stretch as 'KTR-Ivanka Trump Road' - taking a jibe at municipal management minister KT Rama Rao.
The clean-up force began at 10.30 am and used to be completed via 12 pm via around 50 locals and activists of 'Save Bison Polo Ground' campaign, who had been lovely lower up with the municipal government' apathy. The highway is a big hyperlink between Sangeet Crossroads and West Marredpally, AOC Circle, Safilguda, Malkajgiri, Yapral and Addagutta. Call it a 'Munnabhai act' via residents, video in their initiative have long gone viral in social media with nearly three,000 hits.

Resident SV Prabhakar's anger said it all. "We had to take up the gauntlet. As our pleas have fallen on the deaf ears of the authorities to repair the potholes, we wanted to teach the authorities a lesson. Our outstanding work and initative should be a role model to residents of other colonies," he seen. An previous resident of the colony Alakanda Tara said: "We are proud of the residents who took the initiative and set the record straight."

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It used to be on November 27 last year when locals along side commuters staged a protest on this very highway and invited US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, who used to be on a seek advice from to Hyderabad, to pay a seek advice from to their colony. GHMC had spent with reference to ₹70 crore for giving facelift to arterial roads and taking up beautification works at the routes Ivanka had travelled. The normal grievance towards the civic frame used to be that it had very easily neglected highway upkeep and other works the place they had been needed essentially the most.


“The duration of the stretch close to Marredpally school is 200 meters. We spent Rs four,000 on concrete mix, granite stones, and water. We contributed the volume from our personal pockets. We launched the repair works at 10.30 am and completed via 12 midday,” M Krishank, one of the activists of Save Bison Polo Ground campaign said. The civic government did not hassle to fill the potholes at the stretch, he defined.


Making no bones about their anger, the activists and residents even displayed placards towards the GHMC’s state of no activity.


Soon after of entirety of the upkeep, they named the stretch as ‘KTR-Ivanka Trump Road’. “This is a great initiative. I take the street virtually on a daily basis. The potholes are dime a dozen and now, it’s an enormous reduction to traverse at the stretch,” Nikhil Nayak, a neighborhood, advised TOI.


Close to three,000 commuters use this stretch, he added.
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