Being located in a stratergic location in the Chennai – Bangalore national highway, Melvisharam town enjoys to serve as a connecting point to the industries and other villages/town around it.
People feel very difficult to access bus from Arcot and Vellore bus stands to reach melvishram and its surrounding places. Moreover, there is always confusions which creates problem to travel visharam with local buses with two different bus stands in vellore. All the bus services ignores to stop in that existing Masjid-e-khizar stop.
With the rapid developments to serve people in and around Melvisharm more number of health cares like Apollo KH hospital, Sathya Dental Hospital, clinics, leading academic institutions from arts and since to engineering to women’s college, service and production industries attracts large number of people from far away locations. Since much of the buses passes through the national highway, people prefer to get down at Apollow KH Hospital stop which gives easy accesses to all the centers by means of local transportation.
It is well known that people of visharam and those who work here in visharam approached the highway and transport officials to stop the bus in that Apollo Stop. All the effort of the past went to deaf ears, no officials are interested to hear our request to have a bus stop in Melvisharam highway. When express buses itself will stop at Madhanur, Pallikonda, Natrampalli, Bargur plying on Bangalore side and Kaveeripakkan, Oocheri, Balachettipuram, Sungvachatteram, Sriperambattur on Chennai side; why can’t it serve to the needs of Third Grade Muncipality town people who are either visiting visharam or travelling out of visharam?
With turning down the repeated requests from many social service organizations of Melvisharam, Islamiah Welfare Organization plans to hold a mass rally on Monday, the 11th January 2010 to appeal the Government of Tamil Nadu and the concerned authorities to halt all kind of bus services to discharge and take-on the passegers at Apollow KH Hospital Stop. After a long silence, this initiative is energized by IWA and it will be good for all the people to unite and stand in a harmonious way and support the rally to achieve its aim in a peaceful effort.
Note: There seems to be lot of appeals made to Ministers / MLA’s / Authorities in earlier times, if anyone have informatio about this, please share it with others with your comments.