Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, Nov 6: No amount of reporting the pathetic state of NH 32 has drawn the attention of officials and authorities concerned to erase the worry lines on the foreheads of regular commuters be it truckers, public vehicle passengers or four-wheeler occupants who have unfailing suffered the woes of vehicular breakdowns or traffic congestions caused by the moon surface-like NH 32 condition.
A case in point is the miles� long stranded vehicles from both ends of NH 33 originating from about 500 meters from Jamdih village. Two vehicles broke down while negotiating a lake like crater on the National Highway. This happened around 5 am. As a result other vehicles got stranded and within no time the vehicle jam grew. By 11 am the line of vehicles from both ends of the road extended upto a 5 kilometer stretch each way. Such potholes, some enormous as the one that �flagged off� the traffic mess, dot the NH 33 route. Only two wheelers somehow managed to virtually wriggle through the melee.
Even the emergency services were badly affected. Students huffed and puffed in their stranded vehicles that put paid to their attendances in their institutions. Ambulance services were also hit by this traffic congestion. Sirka resident Arun Singh Sardar informed, �This is a regular feature which we have to bear or suffer. This condition of the NH 33 from Jahira Morh to Adardih border is riddled with hundreds of potholes some as large and wide as this one (pointing to the pond-like hole where two broken down vehicles started today�s jams). Even patients have to bear the brunt as there is delay in taking them for medical attention.�
If, even after such incidences of discomfort and time wastage still keep the authorities on snooze mode, then what will it take to awaken them? A disaster culminating in the loss of many lives and limbs?
