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A Scheduled Caste hamlet of astir 120 families successful Vedaranyam has been marooned successful knee-deep stagnant h2o for 3 days, with powerfulness proviso chopped and a authorities schoolhouse and hostel nether water, pursuing dense rainfall triggered by Cyclone Ditwah.
The colony successful Ward 9, Gandhi Puram, with astir 150 houses, has been surrounded by h2o since mid-week. Residents accidental overflowing drains, a blocked surplus channel, and mediocre desiltation person turned the colony into a “permanent sump”.
On Sunday, A. Punitha stood astatine the entranceway of her location with her seven-year-old son, h2o pooled wrong the courtyard and connected the street. “We cannot nonstop our children to school. Women cannot measurement out. For 2 days, determination has been nary power. We are wholly chopped off,” she said.
N. Sekhar, P. Raji and M. Mathiyazhagan said the hamlet has go unlivable each monsoon. “The authorities has built a drain, but the h2o is lasting astir doubly supra its level. What is the usage if determination is nary due outfall?,” 1 of them asked.
Long-time nonmigratory C. Kasinathan, 73, called the occupation structural. “These houses were allotted to america years agone precisely due to the fact that it is simply a low-lying country and we are from the Scheduled Caste community,” helium alleged. “Every year, h2o doesn’t drain for a week. Our children autumn sick with acold and fever. No 1 has travel to assistance america truthful far,” she said.
Residents said the confederate surplus channel, which should transportation h2o out, had efficaciously been closed and the caller drainage canal wrong the colony “only collects water, not carries it away”. A ₹10-lakh interior roadworthy was laid recently, but they pointed retired that the nexus roadworthy should person been raised to let escaped travel of water. The authorities precocious schoolhouse nether the Adi Dravidar Welfare Department and its hostel successful the locality are besides surrounded by h2o “every rainy season”, they said.
Similar stagnation has been reported successful Vettavaran Kadu and Mandi Thoppu, which autumn nether Ward 9 of Vedaranyam Municipality.
Officials of Vedaranyam Municipality said preliminary surveys had been completed and that drainage and dewatering operations would statesman erstwhile the rainfall stops.
Elsewhere successful Vedaranyam taluk, farmers successful Kariyappatinam Thalainyar, Thanikottagam and Aayakkaranpulam reported h2o stagnation successful fields, with h2o hyacinth drifting into flooded workplace plots.
In Nagapattinam, rainwater entered houses successful Ambedkar Nagar, Nagore. At the Nagore dargah, determination was h2o stagnation successful parts of the precincts, but the dargah authorities said the Kanduri festival would spell up arsenic scheduled successful the aboriginal hours of Monday. They said arrangements were being made to supply nutrient and drinking h2o for devotees.
