Corporation draws flak for poor quality of drainage channel construction in Tirunelveli

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Tirunelveli Mayor G. Ramakrishnan receiving petitions from the residents astatine  the grievance time  gathering  connected  Tuesday.

Tirunelveli Mayor G. Ramakrishnan receiving petitions from the residents astatine the grievance time gathering connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: A. SHAIKMOHIDEEN

Residents, user association, and the Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam person travel down heavy connected the Corporation for the mediocre prime of operation and the faulty plan of the drains that failed to service the intent for which they were built and caused hardship to the public.

In the petition submitted to Mayor G. Ramakrishnan connected Tuesday, the Consumer Rights Protection Forum said the Corporation started the enactment connected the sewage transmission betwixt Andavar Street and Kottikulam Road successful Ward 45 aft the monsoon acceptable in.

Since the enactment was substandard and the plan faulty, the sewage that flowed on this transmission had breached the “concrete canal” astatine respective points. Moreover, the channels built were supra the level of the roadworthy resulting successful the sewage flowing into the houses nearby.

“Since the Corporation officials failed to inspect their task and guarantee superior prime of work, the residents were suffering now. The Corporation should hence instrumentality corrective measures instantly to avert the nauseating information prevailing successful our area,” said V. Petchimuthu, president of the Forum.

A radical of residents from Melapalayam Kalwath Nayagam Street successful Ward 45 submitted a petition complaining astir the mediocre prime drainage channels successful their country built with atrocious design. “The drainage transmission enactment started a period agone by Melapalayam Zone chairperson Kathija Iqlam Fazila had been abandoned midway. The prime of the enactment executed truthful acold is acold from satisfaction. Since the drainage transmission has not been decently designed, sewage stagnates successful the transmission and overflows successful immoderate areas to make disgusting information on the street. In immoderate spots, the overflowing sewage had entered the adjacent houses. Hence, the Corporation should enactment instantly to rectify the operation issues and implicit the enactment astatine the earliest,” the petitioners said.

On behalf of Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam, the party’s 17th ward caput P. Suresh submitted a petition narrating the ordeals of the 200-odd Scheduled Caste families of Samooharengan Trust Street owed to the sewage overflowing on the street.

“The Corporation should instantly commencement constructing the sewage transmission on this street,” Mr. Suresh said.

Patta sought

A radical of residents from Thimmarajapuram and Kakkan Nagar astatine Ward 5 submitted a petition seeking patta for the waterway poramboke onshore arsenic they had built their houses connected this land.

“Since determination was nary farming cognition successful our country for the past 30 years, we built the houses connected this land. Following a Supreme Court bid connected eviction of encroachments made on the waterway poramboke lands, the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board had issued eviction announcement to 84 families. As determination is nary farming cognition successful our country implicit the past 30 years and our houses are not obstructing immoderate travel of water, the authorities should springiness america patta for the lands connected which we person built our houses,” the petitioners said.

A radical of radical from Shanmugarengapuram successful Ward 16 submitted a petition seeking the installation of a synthetic h2o vessel astatine the cremation crushed and the residents of Ward 17 submitted a petition seeking burial crushed connected a authorities poramboke onshore adjacent Gandhi Nagar.

Published - January 06, 2026 08:44 p.m. IST

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