Residents lay Their own Road; officials Destroy It

Residents of Praneet Colony in Ameenpur staged a sit-in protest against officials on Sunday.

Protestors allege that officials destroyed a newly laid road in front of the Biramguda petrol station terming it as unauthorised; the road was laid by Praneet Group MD Narendra at a cost of Rs 25 lakh.

The protestors blocked the road and obstructed movement of vehicular traffic on it. They raised slogans “MRO down down”.

When sub-inspectors Lalu Naik and Bharat Kumar tried to restore normalcy in the region, MRO Giri reached the place that resulted in an altercation between him and the protestors.

Ultimately, the colony residents represented their problems to the MRO and urged him to allow the road to continue as it is.

“The road is helpful to students travelling to Sri Chaitanya and Bachpan schools,” they said.

“When there were no street lamps in our area, residents of the colony, numbering about 6,000, spent Rs 3 lakh from their pockets and got it installed. When the government did not come forward to lay the road, we got the cement concrete road laid with the help of Praneet Group Managing Director Narendra,” informed the people of the area.

Residents sought the intervention of municipal administration minister K Taraka Rama Rao to resolve their problem.