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Residents of P&T Apartment Complex astatine Mundamveli staged a protestation march connected Saturday evening to the location of the contractor engaged for assorted ongoing works, which person reportedly remained suspended since the notification of the section assemblage polls.
Works, including drainage, compound partition construction, overhead roofing, landscaping, and earth-filling, person yet to resume adjacent aft the lifting of the Model Code of Conduct. The protestation march was organised nether the aegis of P&T Apartment Association.
“Not lone person the works not resumed, but excavated ungraded remains dumped implicit the septic tank, preventing the removal of blockages. Since the contractor was neither disposable nor reachable by phone, the Thoppumpady constabulary contacted the part technologist attached to the Fort Kochi zonal bureau of the Kochi Corporation, who informed them that the contractor had backed retired of the works,” said Abhilash P. Parameswaran, president of the association.
The works are being funded with ₹1.19 crore from the plus improvement money of the Kochi MLA and an further ₹50 lakh allocated by the Kochi Corporation. Mr. Parameswaran questioned however the contractor could retreat arbitrarily. “The constabulary said the technologist had agreed to carnivore the expenses of removing the ungraded from implicit the septic tank. We expect much clarity connected the substance of the works connected Monday,” helium added.
Seventy-seven families from the erstwhile P&T Colony, located connected the banks of the Perandoor canal adjacent Kadavanthra, were relocated to the apartments built by the Greater Cochin Development Authority successful January 2024. However, the apartments began leaking during the archetypal showers, overmuch to the dismay of the residents.
Earlier this year, the State government, aft sizeable delay, had appointed IIT Madras arsenic advisor to observe structural and plan flaws and urge solutions for the flat complex. Incidentally, Mr. Parameswaran contested from the Mundamveli East part of the Corporation to gully attraction to the plight of the flat residents.
