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The Ponneri Assembly Constituency consists of 100 villages, with a bulk of the colonisation being sportfishing community, babelike connected the sea. However, the constituency has besides go an concern powerhouse with respective large industries, including 3 important powerfulness generating stations located successful and astir Minjur.
While the reserved constituency has respective industries, residents person not reaped the benefits, either successful the signifier of employment successful the manufacturing units, oregon immoderate worthwhile projects created from the immense Corporation Social Responsibility (CSR) funds distributed by the large corporations functioning successful the constituency.
The constituency consists of a large information of Ponneri Taluk, including towns specified arsenic Ponneri, Minjur, Arani, and Athipattu. It besides covers galore villages successful areas specified arsenic Thirupalaivanam, Pazhaverkadu, and Kattupalli, with much than 100 villages, including implicit 50 villages that screen the sportfishing communities successful the taluk.
Check dams
Social activistic M. Abubakkar Siddique pointed retired the request for cheque dams to beryllium constructed successful Minjur to forestall rainwater from being wasted, arsenic the Kosasthalai River and the Arani stream evacuate into the sea. “Also, the groundwater has turned saline owed to the beingness of respective powerfulness stations, and has go unfit for consumption. So if the cheque dams are constructed crossed the Kosasthalai River it would amended the prime of the groundwater,” helium said.
Mr. Abubakkar, who is besides the section country Councillor of Minjur panchayat, wanted piped drinking h2o to beryllium brought to Minjur and surrounding areas from the Poondi Reservoir oregon by mounting up a desalination plant, which has been the request for respective years.
The villagers successful Minjur privation speedy operation of the flyover being constructed crossed the railway tracks. The enactment connected the flyover was being executed astatine a sluggish gait for a prolonged play and has go a large contented causing postulation congestion. Residents of much than 50 surrounding villages would beryllium utilizing this flyover to transverse Minjur.
The beingness of respective manufacturing industries, on with the constitution of a fig of warehouses successful the vicinity of Kattupalli Port, has resulted successful dense question of ample trucks done Minjur.
Residents of Ponneri privation the authorities superior wellness centre (PHC) to beryllium upgraded successful Minjur on with the Government Hospital successful the Ponneri town. Given that thousands are employed successful large concern establishments, wherever a bulk of them are being migrant workers, including the North Chennai Thermal Power Station, Kattupalli Port, Adani Port, and Indian Oil Corporation the Minjur PHC does not person the capableness to supply capable exigency aesculapian assistance oregon treating concern mishap victims.
Since this portion has a precocious attraction of concern workers, determination is simply a request to found an Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Hospital and to importantly upgrade the existing PHC.
Road accidents
The dense postulation congestion has resulted successful respective accidents and astir of the mishap victims are being taken to the Government Stanley Hospital and not to the Ponneri Hospital, which has a minimum mishap attraction facility.
Hundreds of students from surrounding villages, including Athipattu, Nandiyambakkam, Melur, Nalur, Ariyanvayal, and Neydavayal are incapable to prosecute higher acquisition due to the fact that of the lack of authorities higher secondary schoolhouse oregon authorities arts assemblage successful Minjur.
In the main Ponneri locality, which has a ample residential colonisation on with a trading community, the residents privation a caller territory to beryllium carved retired from the Tiruvallur district, akin to Chengalpattu, which was carved retired from Kancheepuram district.
D. Dhanushkodi, caput of Tiruvallur Maavatta Makkal Mempattu Sangam, said the Ponneri being a gross taluk headquarters, it should beryllium made into a abstracted district, arsenic residents person to question much than 50 km to springiness representations successful the Tiruvallur Collectorate.
Social activistic Dhanushkodi besides pointed retired that though Ponneri has a authorities college, a ample fig of students from adjacent villages, including Gummidipoondi, vie to get seats successful the college. As a result, students are forced to spell to the arts and subject colleges successful Chennai, which is much than 40 km distant with precise constricted nationalist transport facility. A women assemblage needs to beryllium opened, helium added.
P. Chakrapani, a nonmigratory of Balaji Nagar successful Ponneri, citing the immense postulation congestion caused astatine the subway successful Theradi street, wanted a overbridge crossed the railway tracks to beryllium constructed. The subway connecting G.N.T. Road via Theradi thoroughfare to Pazhaverkadu water is successful a dilapidated authorities with postulation getting clogged up regularly. During the rainy season, the subway becomes unmotorable, owed to h2o stagnation.
Inadequate autobus facility
The residents besides constituent to inadequate nationalist autobus transport facility, and the dilatory operation of the autobus terminus adjacent the Ponneri market.
The lone reliable nationalist transport installation is the suburban trains, but it is besides not dependable, arsenic they instrumentality much than 2 hours to scope the Beach oregon Moore Market analyzable railway station.
