Youths repair road at E Pudur in Trichy with crowd-funding

Trichy: Fed up after repeatedly approaching the civic body to repair a damaged residential road, a group of youths in Trichy have refurbished a road during the lockdown through crowd-funding. They filled the potholes to make the road in E Pudur locality falling under ward 39 motorable for Krishnapuram residents.

Krishnapuram Youth Association that refurbished the residential road said that they had been demanding Trichy Corporation since a year to relay the damaged road. However, the civic body has delayed the redevelopment work citing the pending underground drainage work. Residents said that the bad condition of the road often resulted in people falling from vehicles, particularly the senior citizens.

Meanwhile, as Covid-19 lockdown came into effect, around 35 youths including college students and graduates associated with the youths’ association decided to refurbish the road. Through crowd-funding, the youths collected Rs11,000 for refurbishing the Krishnapuram road that connects three streets that is home to 120 families. “We purchased soil, gravel and cement in minimal quantity to fill the potholes. For about three days last week, our members contributed two-three hours each to make the road motorable,” A Manivel, member of the association, said. The youths had relayed the road’s surface with concrete mixture. Since a portion of the materials purchased for the work is left with the association, youths said that they will periodically repair the 50-feet long road in case of damage due to rain. Since the patchwork was temporary, the youths urged the civic body to redevelop the residential road professionally. Trichy Corporation has assured them to repair the damaged Krishnapuram Road.