As is the case with most wards in added areas in the Coimbatore
Corporation, Ward 88 also lacks storm water drain and underground
drainage system.

The Ward was formed by combining three wards of
the then Kuniamuthur Municipality – Wards 17, 18 and 19. It extends from
Sundakkamuthur Main Road in the north to Edayarpalayam in the south and
from Sundakkamuthur in the west to Palakkad Main Road in the east.

The
Ward has very few industries and most of the commercial activity takes
place on Palakkad Main Road. Rice Mill Road, Pal Pannai Veethi, and Dal
Factory Road are the old town areas and the newly developed layouts
include Government Officers’ Colony, J.J. Nagar, M.S. Garden and a few
more.

The residents said that most of the residential areas did
not have storm water drainage and the entire Ward did not have
underground drainage facility. With the number of people increasing, it
was important that the Corporation provided the amenities at the
earliest, said V. Shanmugam, a resident of Cholan Nagar.

The water
supply situation had worsened in the recent past, thanks to the poor
storage position in the Siruvani Reservoir, but their problem was that
the Corporation’s supply was irregular. The residents were clueless
about the water supply time; sometimes it would be around 2 a.m. or 3
a.m., complained M. Chitti Babu, a resident.

The
other big problem – something that is common across other added areas –
is the number of unapproved layouts where the Corporation cannot
provide basic amenities such as street lights or drains.

Not only
in the layouts, but in many other areas in the Ward, the street lighting
is poor, complains E. Suresh, a resident of J.J. Nagar.

One of
the big-ticket development projects that the residents want is a link
road from Edayarpalayam to Sundakkamuthur Road so that residents of the
area could easily reach Selvapuram by taking Kovaipudur Bypass Road.

Former
Councillor of the Ward, Amutha Arulmozhi, said that she had taken up
with the Corporation the need for the road and was pursuing it with help
from the Municipal Administration Minister.

The other demands include an end to the illegal dumping of waste and debris along Sengulam Tank bund road and in new layouts.