The Hindu 23.02.2012
Councillors demand improvement in water supply
Monday’s meeting of councillors representing wards in
North Zone saw them demand improvement in water supply, deployment of
more conservancy workers, more bins among others.
Ward
29 Councillor R. Mahadevan complained that not only drinking water but
also borewell water supply was insufficient to meet the people’s needs.
He wondered how the Corporation would be able to manage the ensuing
summer.
Citing allotment of funds for wards, he
wanted to know the basis the North Zone administration adopted in
distributing funds. “Is it area, or population or political
affiliation?” He also wanted to know when the Corporation would provide
vehicles for his ward for clearing garbage. Bullock cards did not meet
the needs.
For P.V. Subramanian, Councillor, Ward 47,
it was mosquito menace on the agenda. It had been ages since his ward’s
residents or he spotted the Corporation’s vehicles used to control
mosquitoes. He also spoke about the need for efforts to control street
dog menace.
S.R. Gopalakrishnan, Councillor, Ward 28,
said that conservancy work suffered in his ward because of insufficient
number of workers. The number of workers the Corporation promised to
deploy had not been sent. He also complained about faulty streetlights.
S.
Saradha Shanmugam, Councillor, Ward 26, also spoke about insufficient
workers. Drainage cleaning work suffered in her ward because of
inadequate staff. V. Vathsala, Councillor, Ward 1, demanded mass
cleaning camp in all the wards in the zone.
North
Zone Chairman P. Rajkumar promised to look into the issues and assured
the councillors that the focus would be on developing added areas.
Later,
the councillors passed resolutions on laying roads, cleaning public
convenience facilities, improving amenities in market, etc.
