Goings-on around a wall in Mandaveli: residents of TP Scheme Road want CM Vijay to take note of their plight

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Poonga View Residents Welfare Association: erstwhile they christened their RWA thus, residents of TP Scheme Road successful Mandaveli had successful caput categories of “views” diametrically other to what they are being treated to.

TP Scheme Road is 300 metres long, and 1 broadside of the roadworthy has a wall, 1 bounding the Adyar Poonga. It means determination are habitations connected lone 1 broadside of the road. A careless number puts it astatine 50; sparsely populated, 1 would expect serenity. And quality rearing up connected 1 broadside meant the eyes had a pleasant entity to absorption on. 

Here are the categories of “views” they are really treated to connected a regular basis, arsenic listed by members of Poonga View RWA. Open urination on the wall. Unauthorised parking on the wall. When the TASMAC outlet was connected Venkatakrishna Road successful Mandaveli, tipplers would crook the abstraction by the partition into an unfastened bar, and immoderate of them would marque it a “bed” for a stupefied, post-alcohol slumber. As reported by residents, determination would besides beryllium different forms of substance maltreatment down the illegally parked vehicles, immoderate of them abandoned. Couples would besides get successful cars. Besides, the trees successful the Poonga that were expected to springiness them a pleasant view, would ironically adhd to the problems. The leaves they shed, on with those shrugged disconnected by the avenue trees connected TP Scheme Road, would accumulate by the broadside of the wall, arsenic parked vehicles would mean Urbaser Summet workers cannot wide the putrefying muck. There would beryllium garbage arsenic well, according to a subordinate of the RWA. Reptiles successful the Poonga retired for a stroll, good crawl, consciousness astatine location successful this muck.

This roadworthy falls successful ward 171, Zone 13, and these residents person taken the substance to the councillor, and earlier adjacent escalated it to the erstwhile MLA. 

And they are inactive waiting for each these problems to beryllium resolved. 

This is however a subordinate of Poonga View RWA puts it: “This has been the country for galore years with nary enactment taken by the authorities adjacent aft galore complaints to Greater Chennai Corporation. They support pointing astatine the different officials for not doing their job. We privation to bring this to the announcement of CM Vijay truthful that determination volition beryllium immoderate enactment by the caller authorities that could lick our long-pending problems.”

Published - May 24, 2026 08:59 americium IST

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