TN village gets bus service -- at last

September 03, 2019 14:24

For village M Meenakshipuram in Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu, Independence Day dawned last week, when the state government started a bus service to the village.

Till now, the only way residents could take a walk was after walking 4 km to the nearest village, M Reddiyapatti. The worst sufferers were students who had no way to access the neighbouring schools. Even relationships became strained as no one would come to a village that was so inaccessible, reports Anandavikatan.com.

After submitting representations to the administration for decades, the village got what it had prayed for: A bus connection.

Naturally, overjoyed villages marked the occasion by wild celebrations and bursting firecrackers.

The new bus service would reach the village at 7 am, so as to ferry students, and return around 4.30 pm, at the time schools shut, to bring them back.

Hopefully, the village would see more bus services in the days to come.

You can read the report, in Tamil, here.

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