Chinese company facilitates roads to prosperity

When the construction staff apologized for the inconvenience caused by the construction work to his home, Nargeshwaran said: "The current inconvenience is temporary, and we have been looking forward to the improvement of road conditions."

Kumar, who owns a grocery store, has already benefited from the rural road transformation. "After the road in front of my house was rebuilt, more customers came to my store than before."

At the end of school hours, the newly paved road next to Maraharampalai Vinayakar Viththiyalayam School is bustling with parents coming to pick up their children.

Watching the students happily running and cycling outside the school, principal Manchuria Devi Theruvarural Nesan says the road has brought great convenience for the 250 students and their parents.

The rural road reconstruction project not only improved local residents' travel conditions, but also created job opportunities. In order to promote women's employment, the project has set aside 30 percent of the positions for local females.

Thirty-nine-year-old Sandaramogan Shashikala, a female road cleaner, found it very difficult to raise her children with limited financial resources. However, after she started working for the Chinese company's project, her family's economic situation has improved and her home now has a new bathroom and electricity.

Another female worker Subramaniyam Parameshwari says it is generally difficult for women to find jobs in this area, but now she can earn enough to support herself and her family.

Xinhua