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The ambitious multi-crore Smart Cities Mission task of the Vellore Corporation remains unpopular among voters owed to tardy enactment of the civic assemblage since the task began successful 2018.
Laying of bitumen roads, an underground sewage system, autarkic ducts for inferior cables, including net and telephone services, water pipelines, tiled footpath with alloy railings are immoderate of the features of the task that is estimated to outgo astir ₹3,500 crore.
“Re-laying of damaged stretches owed to underground drainage pipeline enactment without milling of the worn-out bitumen furniture has lone pulled houses a fewer inches down on these stretches, exposing the buildings to h2o logging during monsoon,” said S. Chandrasekar, a long-time resident.
Mr. Chandrasekar resides successful Sathuvachari, an upmarket lodging country connected Chennai - Bengaluru National Highway (NH 48) that forms portion of the civic body. Many houses successful Gandhi Nagar successful Sathuvachari, Double Road, Regional Transport Office (RTO) Road, disconnected the nationalist highway, are placed a fewer feet little than the existing roadworthy level.
“ Work done nether the Smart Cities Mission task person drained taxpayers’ money. Household drainage connections person not started contempt the task opening astir a decennary ago,” said J.C. Kumareswaran, president, Sathuvachari Consumer Welfare Association.
Another large situation that irks voters successful the constitutency is stray cattle and dogs successful the area. Many residents wrong the civic assemblage limits are dairy farmers. Residents blasted dairy owners for leaving cattle connected the streets to provender earlier they thrust the animals backmost to the cowshed successful the evenings. “Fines and seizures of stray cattle person not ended the menace arsenic we inactive look the information of stray cattle moving crossed cardinal stretches successful the town. A imperishable solution should beryllium recovered by the civic body,” said K. Mahalakshmi, different resident.
The incumbent DMK MLA P. Karthikeyan has been elected doubly from the Vellore spot successful 2016 and 2021 Assembly elections. He was besides the archetypal Chairman of Vellore Corporation erstwhile the civic assemblage was upgraded from a municipality successful 2008. The constituency has remained a stronghold for DMK, that has sent MLAs from the spot astatine slightest six times since 1952 erstwhile the archetypal Assembly elections were held for the constituency.
Nevertheless, electorates stay unsatisfied with the advancement of enactment nether the Smart Cities Mission project. Violation of postulation rules by motorists connected cardinal stretches successful the Assembly constituency remains different interest for voters, particularly women and elder citizens. Residents said that regular constabulary patrolling wrong the constituency was not done for a agelong time.
With Karthikeyan being announced arsenic the DMK campaigner for the constituency again by enactment president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Saturday, cardinal civic woes of voters volition determine whether Mr. Karthikeyan volition beryllium re-elected for a 3rd word from the constituency.
