<p>The protesters demanded that the bypass project be shelved and instead, stick to the original plan of building a flyover at Padubidri under four lane project from Surathkal to Kundapur.<br /><br />The protest was taken out from Sri Mahalingeshwar temple welcome arch in Padubidri on NH 17 to local bus stand. The agitators laid road blockade at Padubidri town, for a brief while causing hindrance to motorists and inter-city buses. The protesters alleged that influential property owners who had encroached on either side of NH 17 at Padubidri are resisting the NHAI plan to build a flyover through their properties. They are instead pressuring the authorities concerned to work on alternative bypass road which would put the local peasant community in great hardships, they said. <br /><br />The protesters pointed out that nowhere through the NH 17 from Kundapur to Surathkal, a bypass road has been proposed, except flyovers at Katpady, Kaup, Brahmavar and Ucchila among others along the highway, for converting the existing two lane highway into four lane. <br /><br />The protesters submitted a memorandum through Tahsildar to the governor urging to drop the plan of laying a bypass road at Padubidri, since it would cause hardship to many residents from minority community who are not willing to let their lands for the purpose.<br /><br />Former Minister Vasanth Salian, JD(S) District President Deviprasad Shetty, Gangadhar Suvarna, Naveenchandra Shetty, Parvathi Bangera, Abdul Azeez Hejamadi, Nityanand Poojary, Dinesh, Abdul Hameed, Ramdass Nayak and others were present.<br /></p>
<p>The protesters demanded that the bypass project be shelved and instead, stick to the original plan of building a flyover at Padubidri under four lane project from Surathkal to Kundapur.<br /><br />The protest was taken out from Sri Mahalingeshwar temple welcome arch in Padubidri on NH 17 to local bus stand. The agitators laid road blockade at Padubidri town, for a brief while causing hindrance to motorists and inter-city buses. The protesters alleged that influential property owners who had encroached on either side of NH 17 at Padubidri are resisting the NHAI plan to build a flyover through their properties. They are instead pressuring the authorities concerned to work on alternative bypass road which would put the local peasant community in great hardships, they said. <br /><br />The protesters pointed out that nowhere through the NH 17 from Kundapur to Surathkal, a bypass road has been proposed, except flyovers at Katpady, Kaup, Brahmavar and Ucchila among others along the highway, for converting the existing two lane highway into four lane. <br /><br />The protesters submitted a memorandum through Tahsildar to the governor urging to drop the plan of laying a bypass road at Padubidri, since it would cause hardship to many residents from minority community who are not willing to let their lands for the purpose.<br /><br />Former Minister Vasanth Salian, JD(S) District President Deviprasad Shetty, Gangadhar Suvarna, Naveenchandra Shetty, Parvathi Bangera, Abdul Azeez Hejamadi, Nityanand Poojary, Dinesh, Abdul Hameed, Ramdass Nayak and others were present.<br /></p>
