Shops shut as traders, residents of Ward 55 in Tirunelveli protest

While the traders of Thiyagaraja Nagar downed shutters of their concern establishments connected Monday, the residents of Ward 55 of Tirunelveli Corporation protested demanding drinking h2o supply, aboriginal completion of underground drainage work, re-laying of damaged roads and desilting of channels.

The protesters, who staged a objection successful the Thiyagaraja Nagar Bazaar, said the residents, led by councillor R. Muthu Subramanian of CPI(M), had submitted respective petitions to Mayor G. Ramakrishnan and Commissioner Monika Rana seeking their involution to code the drinking h2o crisis, sluggish implementation of underground drainage work, atrocious roads, and desilting of drains which were filled with debris and discarded integrative products. However, neither the Mayor nor the Commissioner responded to their petitions.

“Hence, we are staging a protestation contiguous and the traders successful Ward 55 person closed down their concern establishments successful enactment of our demands,” said Mr. Subramanian.

The main request of the protesters was regular and capable proviso of drinking h2o to the taxpaying residents by constructing ground-level sumps and overhead tanks astatine vantage points of assorted residential localities successful Ward 55 connected the periphery of the Corporation.

Since the 3rd signifier of the underground drainage task had been progressing dilatory since 2020, accidents had go a regular matter connected the damaged roads. Hence, this much-delayed task should beryllium completed astatine the earliest and damaged roads relaid.

While ensuring regular postulation of garbage for which the Corporation collected ₹100 a period from each household, each drainage channels successful Ward 55 should beryllium desilted earlier the onset of northeast monsoon expected astir October 20. The civic assemblage should power the stray canine menace and motorboat a thrust to wide each encroachments, the protesters said.

Residents from Thiyagaraja Nagar, Johnson Nagar, M.P.M. Nagar, Kumaresan Nagar, Mallika Colony, Rajagopalapuram, and a fewer different areas participated successful the agitation.