A hamlet in Tamil Nadu had awarded a grand welcome for government buses as it has got the public bus service for the first time after 75 years. You read it right and the service was inaugurated on Sunday, a week after India celebrated its 75th Independence Day. As their years-long demand has come to an end, the villagers had celebrated the moment of the inauguration that their travel would have no hindrance anymore.

On the other hand, it has shockingly revealed the prevailing irony in Tamil Nadu that a village hasn't had a bus service for the past 75 years while the state had advocated itself as the most developed in the country. Kuvalaiveli, a village near Manamadurai in the Sivaganga district, is a gram panchayat with a population of 1000, and being in the vicinity of one of the notable towns in the state, the villagers of the hamlet were alienated from public transport for 75 years and despite the passing of generations, the residents have to walk at least six kilometres every day and reach Muthanendal to catch a bus for their journey.

Regardless of the government, the villagers had kept demand for the public bus service to the village, which has 179 houses. As per the last census, about 50% of people in the village fall under the working population with a total literacy rate of 63.6%. The villagers must have to walk at least two kilometres to avail every basic need from accessing hospitals, schools, and banks.

Their long time demand for public transport wasn't keenly heeded by the governments and with the less population, there had been no potential addressing from the governments to their concerns and after 75 years of living in the plight, the villagers had now found water for their thirst as the Tamil Nadu government had launched the government bus service in the village on Sunday. 

On Sunday, DMK MLA Tamilarasi has inaugurated the bus service in the village as the local people had celebrated the event as if it was their real independence from the pain and plight. They had provided a grand and traditional welcome for the buses by tieing banana trees before the buses and several people had participated in the inauguration event and extended greetings between each other as their demand has been met and their village will have a hassle-free bus service, benefitting students and the working population. 

According to reports, the village has got two government buses and each bus will be operated three times a day and the buses will be connecting Manamadurai, which sits 20 kilometres far from the village. The public service will also be connecting the village to its neighbour Palaiyanur.