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Poor attraction of drainage systems successful galore residential colonies of Karumandapam has evoked beardown disapproval among residents.
Thiru Nagar, Viswas Nagar, Sakthi Nagar, Alpha Nagar, RMS Colony, and IOB Nagar are among the residential areas situated on the confederate broadside of the Tiruchi-Dindigul Highway. According to a unsmooth estimate, determination are astir 5,000 households successful these areas. Most of them were built 25 to 30 years ago. However, the residents look utmost trouble owed to the mediocre drainage system.
The home sewage from households travels done unfastened drains connected crossroads and joins main drains connected main roads and past successful a large drain connected the highway. The unfastened drains were constructed astir 20 years ago. Cracks person developed astatine respective spots connected the drainages. In immoderate places, unfastened drains person suffered terrible damages.
Most drains were choked astatine assorted points, thereby checking the travel of sewage. It is communal to spot sewage overflowing astatine assorted places. Residents invariably brushwood odour emanating from the stagnated sewage. Though the contented is communal successful respective residential pockets successful Karurmandapam, it is said that Thiru Nagar, Viswas Nagar, R.M.S. Colony, and Alpha Nagar person been deed hard.
“Filthy odor that emanates from the unfastened drains makes beingness hard for the residents. No one, including the passers-by, tin flight from it. It is needless to accidental that drains person go breeding crushed for mosquitoes,” says E. Mohamed Ali, a agelong clip nonmigratory of Thiru Nagar.
Residents said that unfastened drains were constructed connected faulty lines. Proper survey had not been done erstwhile the drains were constructed. Moreover, the contractors had failed to supply level of the drains truthful arsenic to guarantee escaped travel of sewage. In immoderate areas, peculiarly connected Thiru Nagar Main Road and Tiruchi-Dindigul highway, traders and shopkeepers person encroached the drainages.
It is alleged that immoderate traders dump discarded and nutrient near implicit successful the drains. The underground drainage enactment was besides not completed.
Mr. Ali said though the residents payment associations had brought the contented to the announcement of the authorities of Tiruchi Corporation and elected representatives connected respective occasions, the contented had not been solved. The Corporation should survey the contented successful item and instrumentality preventive steps to region the silt. The occupation should beryllium solved permanently.
