Tamil Nadu: Cement road laid without moving parked bike in Vellore shocks owner

A parked motorcycle was left stuck in cement after a cement road was laid in Vellore, Tamil Nadu without moving the vehicle. S Murugan, the owner of the bike, had parked it in his usual spot and it sat there overnight since he was neither warned by the workers nor asked to remove it.

TN Viral Desk

Updated Jul 3, 2022, 22:09 IST

A bike was stuck in a cement road laid without permission by a contractor for Vellore City Municipal Corporation | Picture: Twitter

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS

The bike's owner said the relaying was carried out between 11 pm in the night and the subsequent morning.
The commissioner of the corporation in charge has alleged that the cement road was laid without permission.
The contractor has been issued a show-cause notice for the unauthorised work.

A parked motorcycle was left stuck in cement after a cement road was laid in Vellore, Tamil Nadu without moving the vehicle. The bizarre incident is reportedly from an area near Gandhi Road, where, under the Smart Cities Mission, the Vellore City Municipal Corporation (VCMC) was paving a street.

S Murugan, the owner of the bike stuck in cement, had parked it in his usual spot outside a shop and it sat there overnight since he was neither warned by the workers nor asked to remove it, according to The New Indian Express.

“We were at the spot as late as 11 pm but they didn’t inform us. When I came to see the bike in the morning, I was shocked,” the Vellore man recalled.

“They have also closed the discharge channel nearby. How will the rainwater drain now?” Murugan asked.

However, in an interesting development in the story, the commissioner of VCMC said the civic body had never authorised, or even planned a revamp of Kaliyamman Koil Street—the road in question.

“We were shocked upon hearing the incident. It has brought a bad name to the corporation,” P Ashok Kumar told The Indian Express. “This is a blunder and cannot be accepted at the administrative level.”

Normally, contractors are issued a tender and have to navigate a bureaucratic web of permissions. But the corporation had no knowledge of this particular project which appears to be carried out in a clandestine way.

“A show-cause notice has been issued to the engineer (in charge) over this incident. I visited the spot and the motorcycle has been removed from the place it was stuck,” Kumar said.

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