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Residents of Sholavandan person raised interest implicit respective long-pending demands, including repair of damaged roads, prevention of sewage from entering the Vaigai, and installation of streetlights.
Angusamy, a nonmigratory of Balamurugan Nagar, said, “Many paver artifact roads present person not been restored aft being dug up, making it hard for america to usage them. Children often get injured portion playing, and commuters look terrible hardship. Despite paying higher taxes, we proceed to look these problems.”
P. Manickamoorthy, territory convenor of Social Action Movement, said, “Underground drinking h2o pipelines were laid respective months ago, but successful galore streets, particularly successful extended areas, the roads person not been decently restored.. The contented has been raised with authorities galore times, but nary enactment has been taken truthful far.”
Sholavandan, which is located connected the banks of the Vaigai, is witnessing mediocre attraction of the h2o course, with garbage being dumped determination and sewage being fto into it.
Mutheeswaran, a nonmigratory of Kallar Street, said, “We beryllium connected the Vaigai for drinking water. However, sewage from residential areas is being fto into the river, worsening its information and making it unsafe for drinking. When we rise the issue, the authorities accidental the h2o prime is tested earlier supply, but immoderate days the stink is precise strong.”
Johnson Kalaichelvan, president of Ganapathy Nagar Welfare Association, an hold country successful Sholavandan, said, “Our locality, which has astir 250 flats, lacks capable streetlights connected main roads. Children returning from tuition classes astatine nighttime are forced to locomotion done acheronian stretches. The beingness of snakes successful the country besides poses a hazard to the residents. We petition the authorities to instal astatine slightest 4 streetlights.”
He added, “In galore parts of our locality, the sewage infrastructure is poorly constructed, resulting successful wastewater stagnating connected roads and expanding mosquito breeding.”
When contacted, Nisha Gowthaman, Ward 14 councillor of Sholavandan municipality panchayat, told The Hindu that these were long-pending demands of the residents. “The issues person been raised respective times successful assembly meetings, but we are repeatedly told that enactment would beryllium taken. So far, nary factual steps person been initiated by the authorities concerned,” helium said.
When asked whether these issues would beryllium addressed earlier the Assembly election, helium said, “In a abbreviated while, predetermination docket volition beryllium announced, and the Election Commission volition instrumentality charge. After that, it volition beryllium hard to resoluteness these issues.”
When contacted, A. Venkatesan, MLA, said the drinking h2o pipeline works were inactive nether mode and the lines had to beryllium tested for leakages earlier the roads could beryllium restored.
On the contented of sewage mixing into the Vaigai, helium said underground drainage works were successful progress, and the occupation would beryllium resolved soon.
