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Even though the rainfall stopped wholly 3 days ago, immoderate parts of this larboard municipality are inactive battling the stagnant rainwater mixed with sewage overflowing from the clogged underground drainage system.
After the cyclone-induced upwind strategy brought decent rainfall to this coastal municipality implicit the past respective days, the rainfall stopped wholly connected Saturday last. The Corporation is present engaged pumping retired the stagnant rainwater with 30-odd pumps kept astatine assorted affected places of Thoothukudi.
Even though this workout is being repeated similar a ritual for the past respective years during the northeast monsoon, fewer places similar Kamaraj Nagar and Shankar Colony, some adjacent Thoothukudi Medical College, are inactive battling the stagnant rainwater.
The 250-meter-long roadworthy starring to Thoothkudi Medical College from Third Mile Main Road via Kamaraj Nagar has been nether rainwater for the past respective days. “The concern is unbearable aft sewage overflowing from the blocked underground drainage strategy mixed with the already stagnant rainwater. We’ve to locomotion done this excavation of sewage which is nauseating. The Corporation officials should instrumentality contiguous steps to alleviate this crisis,” said the residents of Kamaraj Nagar.
The concern wrong the Thoothukudi Medical College field is inactive worse arsenic knee-deep h2o is stagnating wrong the campus.
“The medicos and our module members, who had sent respective messages to the Corporation done societal media platforms seeking contiguous action, are wading done this pond for the past 1 week,” said a elder prof of TKMCH, who prescribes that the pumping retired of the sewage stagnating on the Kamaraj Nagar roadworthy unsocial would supply alleviation to them.
Corporation officials said the blocks successful the underground drainage strategy would beryllium removed time which would lick the situation instantly.
