A Zero Hour debate over the dismal condition of roads in Kerala led to an Opposition walkout in the Assembly on Tuesday.
Congress legislator Eldose Kunnapillil, who gave notice for an adjournment motion to debate the issue, alleged that underfunding, governmental neglect, and shoddy interdepartmental coordination had caused road surfaces in Kerala to resemble the pockmarked surface of the moon.
The toxic cocktail of chronic mismanagement, ill-designed thoroughfares with no proper system to remove surface and subsurface water, bureaucratic red tape, corruption and heavy traffic had rendered most roads in Kerala untraversable, he said.
