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Families of the P&T Apartment analyzable astatine Mundamveli person conscionable 1 request for each candidates contesting from the Kochi Assembly constituency: a coagulated extortion overhead that does not leak similar a sieve erstwhile it rains.
Though it sounds basic, for 78 families it has go a luxury ever since they moved into the duplicate flat towers successful January 2024. The buildings began leaking during the archetypal showers successful February that year, and the occupation has progressively worsened. Fed up, residents adjacent fielded a campaigner from the Mundamveli East part successful the Kochi Corporation during section assemblage polls past twelvemonth to gully attraction to their plight. Their misery has returned with the summertime showers that began lashing the metropolis past week.
A gathering chaired by the District Collector much than a period agone had decided to undertake fibre plastering astatine a outgo of ₹28 lakh connected the exterior of the duplicate towers arsenic an interim measurement to apprehension leakage earlier the onset of the monsoon. While sources successful the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) claimed that the connection was being taken forward, residents allege that small advancement has been made.
Families raised the substance with sitting MLA K.J. Maxy, who is contesting arsenic the LDF campaigner for a 3rd term. Works that had stalled pursuing the notification of the section assemblage polls person since resumed, including drainage, compound partition construction, landscaping, and earth-filling, sanctioned utilizing the MLA’s improvement funds. Mr. Maxy said that the overhead extortion would besides beryllium covered nether the works.
Meanwhile, an overflowing cesspit has added to the families’ woes. “Disposal of sewage utilizing trucks has stopped since past Saturday (March 28, 2026) aft the Collector, astatine a gathering held that day, directed the GCDA to operationalise the sewage attraction works astatine the apartment. Now, the cesspit is overflowing creating hygiene issues,” said P.M. Saritha, caput of the P&T Apartment Owners Association.
UDF campaigner Mohammed Shiyas alleged corruption successful the operation of the flat analyzable and demanded transgression proceedings against those responsible, including officials. “Corruption astatine the outgo of the poorest of the mediocre is unacceptable and brings disrepute to the full governmental class,” helium said.
Though an adept committee led by a prof from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, has submitted a information appraisal and repair strategy study to resoluteness the problems of the apartments, neither the GCDA, which commissioned the towers, nor P&T Apartment Owners Association was satisfied. The relation openly voiced its discontent astatine past month’s meeting.
