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As the ‘twin towns’ of Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai experienced worst floods successful 2023 and flooding successful a fewer areas past twelvemonth during the northeast monsoon, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has urged the Corporation to desilt each drainage channels successful these towns instantly to prevention the nationalist from imaginable deluge again betwixt October and December.
In a petition submitted to Mayor G. Ramakrishnan connected Tuesday during the play grievances redress meet, CPI (M)’s Melapalayam country caput S.M. Shahul Hameed said astir of the drainage channels and stormwater drains successful Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai were yet to beryllium desilted adjacent arsenic the northeast monsoon was apt to acceptable implicit Tamil Nadu successful mid-October.
The 10-feet-wide stormwater drain successful Thommai Michaelpuram successful ward 43, which would drain the rainwater overflowing from Veinthankulam into the Palayam Channel, had been narrowed down owed to the rampant dumping of waste. Consequently, this country with much than 300 families was marooned past twelvemonth and severely affected successful 2023 owed to unprecedented flooding, for which the Corporation officials took knee-jerk enactment by removing the discarded dumped successful the canal aft immense hue and outcry from the public.
“Again this transmission has been filled with discarded to marque this country susceptible again. Similar concern is seen everyplace successful Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai. Hence, the Corporation should get acceptable for the imaginable dense downpour during upcoming monsoon,” Mr. Shahul said.
He besides demanded the Corporation to commencement the underground drainage works successful the hitherto uncovered areas and re-lay the damaged successful the areas wherever this task had been completed.
Councillor of ward 47 Shafi Amir Fathu besides submitted a petition seeking the desilting of drainage channels successful her ward.
Residents of Canara Bank Colony Residents’ Welfare Association submitted a petition urging the Corporation to commencement underground drainage task enactment successful their area.
