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Tiruchi Corporation has projected to undertake roadworthy restoration enactment and operation of caller storm-water drains to amended rainwater absorption and forestall waterlogging successful susceptible areas of the city.
During the Council meeting, Mayor M. Anbazhagan announced that successful the 2nd signifier of 2025-26, roadwork would beryllium taken up implicit a agelong of 108.22 km astatine an estimated outgo of ₹64.56 crore. Tenders for the enactment are to beryllium floated connected February 5. In the archetypal phase, 117.87 km of roads were laid astatine a outgo of ₹77.73 crore.
Similarly, caller storm-water drains covering 14 km volition beryllium built astatine a outgo of ₹23.43 crore, for which tenders had been floated. Of the ₹32.50 crore allocated successful the Corporation Budget for 2025-26, enactment estimated astatine ₹9.07 crore had been completed truthful far, helium said.
Mr. Anbazhagan directed the officials to expedite each ongoing operation enactment and guarantee that completed projects, including ward offices and anganwadis, are opened earlier February 15.
With the Assembly elections approaching, respective councillors flagged issues specified arsenic the dilatory gait of underground drainage work, damaged roads, faulty storm-water drains, sewer overflows, and inadequate nationalist toilets. They urged the Mayor to code and rectify these shortcomings earlier the elections.
Councillors complained that though ₹20 lakh per portion had been sanctioned for patchwork repairs, enactment had not been undertaken successful their respective wards. In response, the Mayor said tenders had been floated and patchwork would beryllium taken up successful a phased manner.
Vijayalakshmi Kannan, Councillor of Ward No. 22, said steps should beryllium taken to decongest Pattabiraman Salai, wherever encroachments were rampant. She urged the Corporation to allocate a dedicated parking abstraction to easiness congestion successful the Thillainagar area.
Councillor V. Jawahar urged the Corporation to marque an allocation successful the upcoming Budget for shifting the angiosperm marketplace successful Srirangam to easiness postulation congestion successful the area.
Charge against Mayor
Earlier, Councillor V. Ramadoss, representing Ward No. 55, staged a walkout alleging that his ward had been neglected successful presumption of infrastructure development. He said enactment were not being carried retired successful his ward connected par with the others and alleged that the Mayor had been taking “revenge” against him, resulting successful hardship for the radical successful his ward.
The Mayor denied the allegation and stated that projects worthy implicit ₹33.50 crore had already been completed successful the ward. The Mayor urged Mr. Ramadoss to retreat the connection “revenge” from his remarks, stating that the civic assemblage functioned without bias. However, Mr. Ramadoss refused to budge and walked retired of the meeting.
