Real-time Signature Campaign at Hitech City Station

The last week of February saw the emergence of a new traffic regulation along the Hitec-City JNTU road. Mornings and evenings of working days, the road is made a one-way. This may or may not solve the traffic problem, but the poor commuters of MMTS did face the wrath.

Autorickshaws, which provide the transport service between the station to the Hitec City junction and other places could not run services between 8 and 10 when a large number of employees reach the place in MMTS. After imposing this rule, these people had to wait for long durations on the road, begging for lifts, looking for alternatives and some of them even went ahead and walked down the way to the junction.

A couple of us took out a signature campaign on 27th February to gather the voice of all the stranded people at the station. We gathered around 200 signatures that day. I happen to know Sri. C. Ramaiah, famously known as "IIT Ramaiah", who is also a Member of Legislative Council. We approached him with the issue. He along with MLC Prof. Nageshwar responded positively to the problem and promised to help us talk to the Minister of Transport the very next day.

Next day morning, with the situation no better than the previous day, we carried out a wider appeal and this time many others joined to help. This time around, we gathered more than 700 signatures.

Thanks to all of you who supported by signing.