Sir,

I wish to highlight a recurring disaster on NH-766 between Mysuru and Nanjangud during monsoons (opposite Mallana Moole Mutt), causing disruption and diversion of vehicular traffic days on.

Every year it repeats; last year at high magnitude, this year slightly less. Especially the stretch between Chikkayana Chatra village and Kabini bridge (near Basavanapura) is alarmingly at a low level and flood water naturally inundates the area. To end the menace permanently there are ways; either upping the land surface by minimum 8 feet overall from opposite the South India Paper Mills till the Kabini bridge (around 1.5 kms run) by land filling or constructing an asphalt road along the Rampura nala adjoining the Paper Mills till the river bridge where the surface is already at an appropriate altitude.

As the traffic density is unimaginably high here, with roads deviating several ways from the town (Gundlupet, Chamarajanagar, T.Narsipur, H.D. Kote) leading to interState borders, one of the alternatives looks inevitable. Will the Administration give a serious thought on this?

– N. Devarajan, Nanjangud, 10.8.2020

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