GAIL Gas Ltd Digging Roads in Mangalore: MLA Vedavyas Kamath Seeks Advance Intimation

Mangalore City South MLA D. Vedavyasa Kamath, said that GAIL Gas Ltd. has been indiscriminately cutting, digging roads in different parts of the city without intimating Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) in advance thus, causing problems to road users. The MLA said that the district administration and the MCC should take make a proper system under which the company was made to intimate the MCC and people in advance before cutting, digging roads.

The MLA said that in some places, the company left the road sides dug by it, unattended for many days. In some cases, it left such stretches without restoring. Finally the MCC has been forced to restore such stretches. MLA Kamath said the city needed the gas supply by the company, but the pipelines should be laid by making people know about it and causing less inconvenience to road users.