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Complaints implicit damaged roads and delays successful implementing the underground drainage (UGD) task dominated the Tiruchi Corporation Council gathering held connected Monday.
Chairing the meeting, Mayor M. Anbazhagan said that the operation of the sewage attraction works astatine Panjapur, with a capableness of 100 cardinal litres per day, would beryllium completed by March. A ace sucker instrumentality had been procured to wide blockages successful the sewage web much effectively.
Several councillors pointed retired that UGD works had not been undertaken successful definite areas, portion successful locations wherever works had been completed, dug-up roads were inactive awaiting restoration. Similar concerns were raised astir roads damaged during the execution of the drinking h2o project.
Councillors V. Ramadoss and K. Ambikapathy highlighted that respective recently laid roads, including Wireless Road, were damaged during the monsoon and called for contiguous patchwork. Responding, the Mayor said ₹20 lakh per portion had been sanctioned for roadworthy repairs and assured that further funds would beryllium allocated arsenic required.
Councillors S. Suresh, representing ward 35, and V. Jawahar, representing ward 2, complained that their wards had not been included successful the ongoing Phase IV of the UGD project. Mr Anbazhagan said the left-out areas would beryllium covered nether Phase V and that tenders would beryllium floated earlier March.
DMK councillor Khajamalai Vijay, representing ward 60, alleged undue hold successful commencing the Phase IV UGD works covering a three-km agelong successful his country and accused the Mayor of neglecting his ward. He aboriginal staged a walkout.
Responding, the Mayor said the hold was owed to the beingness of a rocky subsurface, which required chemic blasting to execute the works. He added that a outgo estimation was being prepared and attributed the hold partially to the monsoon.
Mr. Ambikapathy urged the Corporation to initiate steps to conception an elevated corridor adjacent the Integrated Bus Stand astatine Panjapur, stating that the agelong had go accident-prone. He referred to a caller incidental successful which a six-year-old lad was tally implicit by a lorry adjacent the autobus basal connected Sunday.
In reply, the Mayor said the task fell nether the purview of the National Highways Authority of India and that a elaborate task study was being prepared. He suggested that AIADMK councillors taxable a practice to the Central authorities to expedite the process.
Corporation Commissioner L. Madhubalan and Deputy Mayor G. Dhivya were present.
