The Hindu 23.01.2014
Mayor inspects pipeline project
The fourth pipeline project, aimed at supplying water to more areas in the town, is being implemented.
Mayor L. Sasikala Pushpa and Corporation Commissioner S. Madhumathi inspected a sump at Valalnad on Wednesday.
The project, with six stages of works, is being executed on an outlay of Rs.282.44 crore. It will benefit 3.70 lakh people residing in the 60 wards of Tuticorin Corporation. The project comprises construction of 22 overhead tanks with a capacity of six lakh litres each.
The Mayor also inspected construction of an overhead tank at Adhi Parasakthi Nagar. The pipelines would be connected to Marudur dam.
According to sources, 72 million lakh litres of water would be drawn from the dam a day.
“On an average, 135 litres of water is needed for an individual in a day. Currently, the per capita supply is 60 litres of water,” sources said.
Corporation Executive Engineer S.A. Rajagopalan and a host of other officials accompanied the Mayor during the inspection.
Council meeting
An urgent meeting of the corporation council here on Wednesday came to a close in eight minutes with the passing of an 11-point agenda with “all yes” chorus by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) councillors amid walkout by the DMK members.
Shortly after the meeting started with the Mayor in the chair, DMK councillor M. Balasubramanian charged the corporation authorities of lethargic in heeding to his request to inaugurate a newly constructed library at Sivanthakulam.
He rushed to the well of the council to present a memorandum to the Corporation Commissioner seeking her intervention in opening the library, which had come up on his initiative, at the earliest.
Soon, 18 DMK councillors walked out of the hall raising slogans against the Corporation authorities.
Mr. Balasubramanian later told newsmen that the library, built at a school, remained closed for five months. He threatened to go on fast on the premises of Tuticorin Corporation until the library was inaugurated. A. Kottur Raja, DMK councillor of ward 30 and the party whip, demanded drinking water supply once in three days in the town.
