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Residents of Selva Vinayagar Colony successful Basuvaiah Nagar, Pudumund, successful Udhagamandalam staged a protestation extracurricular the District Collector’s office, alleging that the h2o being supplied to them was contaminated.
The residents, who submitted a petition to the Collector, said that their colony was located successful Ward Number 3 of Udhagamandalam Municipality, with much than 100 families residing there. They said that they were being supplied with h2o from the Marlimund Lake nearby. However, owed to a deficiency of rainfall, the h2o level successful the water had drastically reduced, starring to h2o from the water being brackish.
The h2o besides carried a peculiar odour which made residents fishy that it mightiness beryllium polluted, they said successful their petition. Many families were having to locomotion aggregate kilometers to entree cleanable h2o for drinking, they said.
As a means of ensuring cleanable drinking h2o to the settlement, the residents urged the collector to assistance support for a caller bore good to beryllium dug successful the area, which the residents themselves said they were consenting to wage for.
Villagers surviving adjacent Kokkal gave a petition to the Collector requesting for a abstracted TNSTC autobus for their villages. | Photo Credit: SATHYAMOORTHY M.
Residents request autobus facility
In a abstracted complaint, residents of Kannerimukku, Thubagandi, and a fig of villages surrounding Kokkal adjacent Udhagamandalam alleged that a assemblage was stopping them from boarding buses from the Kokkal autobus stop. As a result, the residents of the villages wanted a abstracted autobus to beryllium assigned to the colony of Kannerimukku to halt immoderate chances of arguments breaking out. If that was unfeasible, they urged the Collector to widen the autobus work to Kannerimukku astatine specified times.
