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The authoritative lodging quarters of Judges for Subordinate Court and District Munsif Court adjacent the Combined Court Complex successful Gudiyatham municipality successful Vellore got flooded aft excess rainwater from a adjacent water entered the Judges Quarters connected Tuesday.
Court officials said that the 2 autarkic authoritative quarters were occupied by K. Prabu, Subordinate Judge and K. Karthick Asath, District Munsif Judge with their families. The combined tribunal analyzable besides has a Judicial Magistrate Court for which R. Saranya is the Judge.
“With the onset of northeast monsoon rain, 2 Judges and their families were moved retired of their authoritative lodging quarters down the tribunal analyzable a week ago. They were staying successful a impermanent accommodation. They volition instrumentality to their lodging quarters aft monsoon,” a tribunal authoritative told The Hindu.
Apart from the 2 Judges, Judicial Magistrate Judge Ms. Saranya is eligible for an authoritative lodging accommodation. However, arsenic the existing lodging quarters for the Judicial Magistrate were certified “unfit” to enactment by the Public Works Department (PWD) a fewer years ago, nary authoritative accommodation has been provided for her.
Officials of PWD, which maintains the tribunal buildings, said that the onshore adjacent the water was a barren authorities onshore much than 2 decades ago. The onshore adjacent the water was identified for a tribunal analyzable including lodging quarters for Judges successful 2007-08 by the State government. Subsequently, the section civic assemblage has issued a NOC to physique the caller court, by certifying that determination is “no waterlogging” successful the area.
Encroachments
PWD officials said that the discharge of excess rainwater from adjacent villages and wastewater from houses wrong Gudiyatham municipality has turned the water into a perennial waterbody. Over the years, much than 50 encroachments, mostly houses, were built connected the bund of the lake. These amerciable structures person blocked the sluice gates of the water from discharging excess rainwater into Palar river.
Based connected alert from tribunal officials, a squad of PWD officials led by S. Panneerselvam, Executive Engineer (EE), PWD (Gudiyatham), began repairing the sluice gates of the lake.
PWD officials besides said that re-laying of stretches astir Judges Quarters, without milling, by the civic assemblage has besides reduced the tallness of the lodging quarters astatine slightest by 5 feet from the roadworthy level. As a result, Judges Quarters, which is on the bund of the lake, gets water-logged each monsoon.
In a rain-related incident, stagnated rainwater is being pumped retired from the past Jalakanteshwara temple wrong the Vellore fort complex, which is an ASI-protected monument. The temple was flooded for the archetypal clip since the 2021 floods chiefly due to the fact that of the moat that reached its afloat capableness past week, ASI officials said.
