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A nationalist involvement litigation (PIL) petition has been filed successful the Madras High Court seeking a absorption to formulate a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) requiring the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC), Chennai Metrowater Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB), Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco), and Greater Chennai City Police to enactment successful tandem portion digging up metropolis roads.
The First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan connected Wednesday (March 11, 2026) ordered notices to each 4 authorities and insisted that they record their antagonistic affidavits wrong 2 weeks. The orders were passed aft proceeding the arguments precocious by activistic S. Muralidharan who argued his lawsuit successful idiosyncratic and accused the officials of having a callous attitude.
The petitioner, successful his affidavit, stated that the GCC had begun laying stormwater drains successful Kottur and Kottur Gardens much than a period ago. He claimed that dense excavation machinery was utilized for the enactment without due planning, supervision, barricading, oregon inter-departmental coordination. This had resulted successful harm to drinking h2o pipelines, sewage lines, and electrical lines, helium said.
He said, the residents had to endure from unfastened sewage stagnation and mosquito breeding due to the fact that of the haphazard execution of the operation enactment and that the contractors had chopped age-old trees and besides not laid the roadworthy aft completing the work. Unfinished stormwater canals with unfastened trenches and protruding alloy rods from them posed a information to everyone passing by, the petitioner complained.
“There was nary to negociate vehicular postulation during highest hours and it had led to agelong postulation jams, thereby expanding sound and particulate contamination successful the locality, successful summation to the hardships which the commuters were enactment done for days together. The damaged roads made the agelong unmotorable and abruptly the roads got blocked erstwhile the contractors utilized tipper trucks to determination excavated materials,” helium said.
He besides said, determination was contamination of drinking h2o and that a CMWSSB technologist had admitted that a drinking h2o pipeline had been damaged owed to the stomwater-laying works. Further, lamenting astir distruption of energy proviso excessively for extended periods owed to the damaged underground infrastructure, the petitioner said, complaints made to the Tangedco officials were disregarded.
Stating that the authorities departments were blaming each different for the plight of the residents, helium insisted connected issuing a absorption to framework an SOP truthful that they enactment successful tandem successful the future. He besides sought a absorption to the GCC to wage a compensation of ₹1 lakh to each household affected by the month-long ordeal.
