All helter-skelter, no shelter

Chennai | Monday | 21st October, 2019

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KV Navya ByExpress News ServiceKOCHI: Iyyappanthanal residents’ struggle to get a bus shelter has hit a roadblock, again. While residents have been fighting for a shelter in the new bus stop since then, the officials have now gone and inspected the same old spot. Having the bus shelter shifted again will mean we have to re-start the struggle from square one. In May 2017, the residents of VGN Nagar crowdfunded `30,000 and constructed a bus shelter after obtaining permission from the local body. “On the fourth day, only the mangled remains of the bus shelter were left, and on examining the CCTV footage, we found earthmovers razing down the shelter at midnight..