Sand, debris that accumulate on Chennai roads are not being cleared properly: residents

Residents person complained that the soil and debris that accumulate connected roads are not being cleared decently successful assorted zones of the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC), expanding the hazard to motorists, too becoming an eyesore connected respective stretches.

C. Balaji of Anna Nagar said pedestrians and motorists person complained astir the accumulation of debris and soil connected galore stretches of roads specified arsenic Anna Nagar 18th Main Road.

Ward 42 councillor M. Renuka said the residents had urged the GCC to guarantee that the roadworthy aboveground was cleared of sand. “We are expecting caller vehicles to region the soil connected the carriageway, on the median, and connected the broadside of the road,” she said.

S. Raja of Pudupet said the soil and debris connected the carriageway of South Cooum River Road had been causing inconvenience to pedestrians and motorists alike. Ahmed Sirajuddin, a nonmigratory of Perambur, demanded that the GCC region the soil and debris connected the roads earlier the onset of the Northeast monsoon.

Officials of the GCC said the civic assemblage had identified stretches specified arsenic Ambedkar Salai adjacent ICF Signal, Shastri Nagar First Avenue, and Munusamy Salai successful K.K. Nagar to redesign the stretches, creating a factual aboveground oregon paver artifact on their sides to facilitate amended clearing of soil and debris connected the stretches.

‘GCC’s responsibility’

K.P. Subramaniam, erstwhile prof of Urban Engineering astatine Anna University, said: “It is the work of the GCC to efficaciously support the roadworthy margins and appurtenances by regular cleaning, sweeping, and removal of the dust, garbage, and debris. Further, the GCC needs to support the storm-water drains and region encroachments. In essence, the GCC is the custodian of the nationalist realm on roads, and to that effect, it should coordinate with different agencies specified arsenic the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board and telecom companies.”