For Priya, a resident of Band Line near the Commercial Road in Udhagamandalam, the lack of a proper road leading to her home brings back bad memories.
She remembers how during her mother’s funeral, she and her family had a difficult time taking the body out of her home to give her mother a dignified funeral. “The road leading up to our house is so badly damaged, with water from the drains as well as rain water collecting on the road, and ensuring that no vehicle or people could get through it without wading through slippery mud,” she said.
Priya is among more than 100 families who live in the Band Line area, a residential space adjoining the bustling Commercial Road, one of the busiest and most popular roads in the town. Another resident, B. Ramesh, said that an open sewer runs in front of most of the houses of the residents that live in Band Line.
