Special ward meetings held in Tirunelveli Corporation

The peculiar meetings successful the wards of the Corporation were held connected Tuesday to person petitions from the public.

While the councillors participated successful the peculiar ward meetings held successful their wards, Mayor G. Ramakrishnan took portion successful the gathering held connected North Mount Road successful his ward 25 to person petitions from the public.

Condemning the Corporation administration’s non-cooperation successful fulfilling the genuine demands of the residents, councillor of ward 41 J. Sangeetha of MDMK boycotted the peculiar ward gathering held astatine Pioneer Kumaraswami Street Park.

Even arsenic the corp officials were waiting astatine the venue, neither the councillor nor the residents came to the parkland to instrumentality portion successful the meeting, overmuch to the embarrassment of the officials, whose repeated attempts to scope Ms. Sangeetha implicit the telephone excessively failed.

After three-hour-long wait, councillor’s hubby Radha Shankar submitted a clump of petitions to the officials.

“The Tirunelveli Corporation has executed nary of our demands adjacent aft we submitted much than a 100 petitions. Since the municipality civic assemblage is not funny successful fulfilling adjacent 1 of our demands, determination is nary constituent successful attending the meeting. If we inquire the nationalist to enactment successful this peculiar ward meeting, it volition beryllium thing but cheating them. Since this gathering is simply a specified eyewash, we boycott this meeting,” Mr. Radha Shankar said aft submitting his demands to the Corporation officials.

After the ruling DMK functionaries mobilised a fewer residents successful an effort to infuse beingness into the programme, they came to the deserted venue to taxable the petition seeking mini autobus service, overhead vessel to streamline drinking h2o supply, thoroughfare lights etc.