Sir,
I visited Nanjangud the other day and was shocked to see the roads in such a pathetic condition. Many stretches are unmotorable, with craters and potholes all along the road. The entire stretch beyond the Mysuru city limits lack street-lights and hence driving during dark is very risky. Added to this is the shameless collection of toll by people who are deliberately oblivious of the condition of the road.
My car though had a Fastag with Rs.195 balance was asked to be parked aside alleging there is zero balance in the Fastag account and hence I should pay double the toll, which is Rs.110.
There are many people who do not travel beyond the city limits frequently. Making Fastag compulsory and in lieu of which people are penalised with double toll moreso for a road which lacks basic facilities, is nothing but harassment of tax-payers.
Is there any elected representative or official from the respective department to pay penalty for such pathetic roads that contribute to majority of accidents?
Citizens are expected to keep all documents of their vehicle up to date. This apart we are supposed to wear helmets and seatbelts to avoid accidents. Central Government is mulling a compulsory four-airbags rule in upcoming vehicles. All these are secondary, the primary need being better and illuminated roads.
Let the Government not hide its incapability inside helmets and airbags!
– Venkatesh, Vidyaranyapuram, 10.10.2022
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Yes, Mysore – Nanjungud is in really bad condition. And, collecting toll from travellers without maintaining the road is a kind of legal loot by authorities.
I agree with Venkatesh. It is absolute INSANITY. How do they collect a Toll on a service which is not provided at all. When I asked the attendant why are they collecting toll on a non motorable road, his simple answer is YARIGE COMPLAINT MADTHIRO MAADI. But many a times only the Ring road and Mysore_Bangalore expressway is in the news for obvious reasons.
Hello @Santosh and @Suhail
You post as if you are from another planet, who may have problems in comprehending the situation here. Responding to a dim witted and deluded @Venlatesh is pretty daft/!
Are you by any chance the IT techies who do the coolie work on an outsourced project writing program codes, which require not much of brain power?
These pot holes etc.. should have made you not to use the road, but typical of persons with demented brains, you do not get the message! The administrators of the toll system know this, and they are laughing at you!!
You have a choice to take the train to Nanjangud or Bangalore. No need to jump into a car to show you have the grandeur of a vehicle of your own
Given that Indians are breeding like rats, surpassing China in population ( the only area they excel!), if most possess cars, think of the beating the roads receive. You car-loving gorillas, have destroyed the Chamundi Hill Road.
Add to your misdeeds, the corrupt practices of your fellow Indians-the road construction contractors, who have to pay 40% of their earnings as commission to the DC, MC, Mysore district minister, the politicians and the CM etc.. means that they use poor quality material so that the repairs become cyclical, so as to give them more opportunity to earn money and the 40% commission flourishes too!
I envy your patriotism. But I am not a techie but I work in the Food Industry and we have a plant at Nanjangud. I use company provided transportation and this is a daily grind for us. BTW – I have a strong doubt if you reside in Mysore.
Hey Suhail
In your first post to which I responded , you accuse the toll collecting authorities as insane to collect the toll. If your company is daft enough to use the road, when there are frequent trains from Mysore-after all Nanjangud is just a neighbouring town, you cannot complain. My residence in Mysore is irrelevant here, as those living in Mysore are fond of vehicles, and given these many numbers of vehicles pounding the roads, no quality roads will withstand. Hence, do not suffer from delusion, common sense is the key,
To me @Marigowda Ramanna sounds like a Kannadiga, who I could believe is a Mysorean.
But @Suhail is not a Kannada name, probably a Northie who arrived to Mysore, and hence the chip on his shoulders.
Too many of these people are residing in Mysore.
Gautam, You can be assured of my credentials of being a Kannadiga. 🙂 A product of Govt. School in Chamarajanagar, Mahajana’s and then Yuvaraja’s.
@Suhail
The list you have given does not mean much anyway. It just says you studied in Mysore.
I know a number of non-Kannadigas arriving in the city who educated their children in the city. They do not speak Kannada at home, which is the acid test.
Your outburst about insanity sounded nonsense, as your company chose to use their vehicles on the road, which is the real insanity along with thousands of other vehicles in this stretch of 20 miles which is so crowded with vehicles, that no road of excellent asphalting can withstand this onslaught.
Without toll, a means of controlling the number of vehicles, besides the maintenance aspect, the traffic on this stretch will be unbearable. I cannot fathom the madness of people using the road , when there is a good train service available.
Very pathetic..infact all the roads within Mysore are also in the same condition..No idea what our elected members are busy with when the people voted them suffering so much
Not Only Pathetic, This Highway Number is 766,Which Connects Kozhikode to Kollegal Via Mysuru. My Concern to This Why Two Tolls Within 60 Km Of the Same Highway. One Near Mysuru Airport and Another Near Gargeswari Near T Narsipura. When Nitin Gadkari ji Himself Told In Lok Sabha On 22nd Of March 2022, To Clear Tolls Within in 3 Months (60 Km).
But These Two Tolls are Just 35 km. So My Question is To Clear One Toll Or Put It After 60 km On Same Highway. Can Officials Hear This Problem or Will Cancel One Toll On the Either Side.