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Residents of 2 villages adjacent Thediyoor check-dam person submitted a petition to Collector R. Sukumar seeking a broad information audit by experts aft h2o began gushing retired precocious done fissures that had developed successful its bund.
The villagers from Thamizhaakurichi and Kuravarkulam nether Thediyoor colony panchayat said the h2o copiously flowing done the cracks developed successful the bund of Thediyoor check-dam, besides known arsenic Thamizhaakurichi check-dam, which is portion of the Tamirabharani – Karumaeniyar – Nambiyar linking project’s flood bearer channel, gave sleepless nights to the residents of adjacent Thamizhaakurichi and Kuravarkulam arsenic immoderate large breach successful the check-dam oregon the bund would instantly submerge some hamlets.
Even though the ‘worst lawsuit scenario’ did not happen, the h2o flowing done the cracks had submerged the adjacent fields, wherever the farmers had cultivated paddy and plantain, causing immense nonaccomplishment to the growers. Fearing a large breach successful the bund, oregon successful the check-dam itself, owed to continued dense influx of water, astir of the villagers had near their location to safer places.
Hence, the Tamil Nadu Government should instrumentality contiguous steps to fortify the bund connected some sides of the check-dam and besides the flood bearer transmission considering the information of the villages connected some sides of the 73-km-long canal and instrumentality due corrective measures. Moreover, caller channels should beryllium dug astatine Thamizhaakurichi, Kuravarkulam and Sengulam to drain the surplus h2o from the flood bearer transmission considering the information of villages nearby, the petitioners said.
Seeking the Collector’s support to determination a no-confidence question against their panchayat president and vice-president, ward members of Vellankuzhi colony panchayat submitted a petition to Dr. Sukumar connected Monday.
The aggrieved ward members said their colony panchayat president and the vice-president were not conducting the mandatory meetings wrong the stipulated intervals portion implementing lone the projects being chosen by the 2 alternatively of getting their consent. This ‘autocratic decision-making’ was causing immense fiscal nonaccomplishment to the colony panchayat ever since they assumed office.
At the aforesaid time, the drinking h2o strategy approved by the ward members successful the colony panchayat gathering had been enactment successful acold retention for the past 4 years adjacent arsenic the villagers were struggling to get drinking water. Also, the president and the vice-president unilaterally recorded the proposals and threatened the ward members to springiness their assent by affixing their signatures successful the panchayat records.
While the existent beneficiaries had been left-out, escaped houses had been sanctioned to radical who already had houses “Hence, the District Collector should either disqualify the Vellankuzhi colony panchayat president and his lawman oregon let america to determination a no-confidence question against them,” the petitioners said.
On behalf of Tamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam, a petition was submitted seeking the Collector’s involution to drain the rainwater stagnating on the sixth thoroughfare of TVS Nagar.
