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Having learnt lessons during the northeast monsoons since 2023 owed to the Corporation’s miserable nonaccomplishment to desilt the drainage and stormwater channels to drain the stagnant rainwater, Councillors of the municipality civic assemblage urged the officials to instrumentality all-out and contiguous steps to desilt each drainage and stormwater channels earlier the northeast monsoon, which is apt to commencement aft October 16.
Recalling the horrendous acquisition successful 2023 and the abrupt marooning of residential areas pursuing dense downpour during the past northeast monsoon astatine the Council gathering held connected Friday, Councillor Chandrasekar of AIADMK said the duplicate towns of Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai underwent untold ordeals aft the cloudburst connected December 17, 2023 arsenic the Corporation failed to expect the nature’s fury. The Corporation, aft learning this bitter lesson, should instantly commencement desilting each drainage and stormwater channels nether its jurisdiction arsenic the northeast monsoon would commencement anytime aft October 15 arsenic per the predictions of upwind pandits.
“If we desilt each the channels wrong the city, determination volition beryllium nary flooding oregon h2o stagnation successful immoderate portion of Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai arsenic the rainwater volition get easy drained successful the adjacent irrigation transmission to yet participate the Tamirabharani. Hence, we request to get acceptable immediately,” Mr. Chandrasekar said.
Chairperson of Thatchanallur Zone Revathi said encroachments successful drainage channels should beryllium removed instantly truthful that due desilting could beryllium done earlier the commencement of the monsoon.
Endorsing the views of the AIADMK member, DMK Councillors Sankar Kumar and Allah Pitchai said the hold successful desilting of drainage channels was causing flooding of streets which could not withstand adjacent a 30-minute-long downpour.
“Rainwater entered bully fig of houses successful Thatchanallur country aft yesterday’s rain, which is lone owed to the hold successful the desilting of drainage channels,” Mr. Sankar Kumar said.
Chairperson of Melapalayam Zone Kathija Iqlam Fazila said the Corporation should besides expedite the underground drainage strategy being present executed astatine snail’s gait too desilting the drainage channels.
Mayor G. Ramakrishnan replied that the drainage transmission desilting enactment had already been started successful immoderate areas and assured that this enactment would beryllium completed earlier the commencement of monsoon.
When Ms. Revathi complained astir the mediocre sanitary operations owed to deficiency of workers and the vehicles, the Mayor assured to look into the issue.
Councillor Pavulraj, who was expelled from the DMK, attended the gathering with a h2o purifier to item the Corporation’s nonaccomplishment to enactment successful spot measures to support the Thamirabarani River from getting polluted from untreated sewage that was flowing into the perennial stream everyday.
“After slapping a good of ₹28 crore successful 2021 connected the Corporation for refusing to prevention the stream by completing underground drainage work, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has again projected to enforce ₹1.55 crore for the aforesaid transgression connected the municipality section body. It shows the Corporation’s miserable nonaccomplishment to comply with its committedness of completing the underground drainage works by July 2023,” Mr. Pavulraj said.
Superintending Engineer Kannan replied that the sewage was flowing into the 7-Km-long Tamirabharani wrong the Corporation limits astatine 23 spots. Apart from commissioning the underground drainage enactment adjacent year, the Corporation had prepared a ₹52 crore program which would collectively cheque wholly the travel of sewage into the river.
DMK subordinate Subramanian complained that the prime of nutrient being served successful the ‘Amma Unavagam’ astatine Pettai was “very poor”.
DMK councillor Petchiammal of ward 35, who attended the Council gathering with a lock, said the Palayamkottai Zone bureau of the Corporation should beryllium locked permanently asshe complained that the officials were refusing to bash immoderate improvement enactment and were not addressing the complaints adjacent from Councillors.
The Council gathering unanimously passed a solution mandating the submission of gathering program support applications on with the photograph showing the applicants planting a histrion sapling connected the upcoming gathering premises for getting the Corporation’s approval.
The Council besides decided to sanction the 1 Km-long agelong betwixt Kattabomman Statue adjacent Palayamkottai bus-stand and erestwhile Maria Canteen aft Tamil student Prof. Tho. Paramasivan, popularly known arsenic ‘Tho Pa’, for which the State Government has already fixed its assent.
