GREATER NOIDA: What the district administration couldn’t do, a 55-year-old woman has decided to do. Rajesh Devi has sold off a portion of her residential property to pay for paving a 250-metre-long concrete road in her village, Dadopur Khatana , in Dadri at an estimated cost of Rs 1 lakh.Devi, who lives with her husband Omveer (60) and son Sudhir — both daily wagers — and three grandchildren in a single-storey house in the village, took the resolve after she sustained head injuries while traversing the treacherous road that is full of potholes . Local residents have long been demanding repair of all broken roads in the village.“I am fed up with the local authorities and their policies. Most of their officials have a different attitude towards the rich and the poor. We have been to various block meetings and written letters to raise the issue of the bad roads in the village, but only the stretches that lead to rich people’s houses get constructed or repaired,” Devi told TOI.“Now, I have sold off a portion of my house to one of my nephews and raised Rs 1 lakh to build a concrete road so that no one else in the neighbourhood has to endure the pain I suffered,” she added.Sudhir, her son, said he was looking for a contractor to build the road. “We are in the process of hiring a private contractor to construct a concrete road for which raw materials have already been ordered. We hope the road will be built within a fortnight,” he added.The villagers, however, have demanded a better drainage system in other roads as well which are in deplorable condition.Mahender Singh, another resident in the village, said that most roads have been constructed two months ago. “But the roads which have been constructed have no outlets to drain out water in case of rains. As a result of which, the village roads always get waterlogged and get back to their original bad shape,” he added.

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