The Hindu 05.04.2013
Meeting today to find permanent solution to water scarcity
STIR:Residents of D.R.O. Colony protesting the Corporation's attempt to
disconnect water pipeline in the city on Thursday.— Photo: G. Moorthy
Residents staging protests for the past one month demanding regular supply.
Corporation Mayor V.V. Rajan Chellappa is convening an
emergency meeting with engineers on Friday (April 5) to find a
permanent solution to the water scarcity in D.R.O. Colony here as
residents have been staging protests for the past one month demanding
regular supply of drinking water.
He has already
asked the officials to work out a plan to solve the water problem in
that area since the ground water yield has come down drastically.
The
Mayor’s attention on D.R.O. Colony comes in the wake of a protest by
residents, men and women, on Thursday over the Corporation’s move to
disconnect drinking water pipeline near A block in the colony and divert
it to K.Pudur which is close by.
When the civic body
staff came to snap/disconnect the water supply connection on Thursday
morning, scores of residents came out and protested. Heated arguments
took place near the official residence of Additional Collector G.K.Arun
Sundar Thayalan where they had gathered and members of the residents’
welfare association called the zonal chairman to convey their objection
to the Corporation’s hasty decision.
“We have to find
a quick solution to this issue because there are representations from
people of K.Pudur and Manmalaimedu asking for regular water supply. Our
original plan is to fill up water in two sumps (60,000 litres) in
D.R.O.Colony and divert the existing pipeline to nearby areas,” Mr.Rajan
Chellappa told
The Hindu
on Thursday.
The residents of D.R.O. Colony are,
however, against the Corporation’s plan to disconnect the water pipeline
and they have threatened to stage demonstrations if any injustice is
done to their area.
“There are 606 housing board
quarters in our area and thousands of people in this locality are
already facing acute water crisis. We will not permit the authorities to
touch the pipeline,” S.Kannan, secretary, D.R.O.Colony Housing Board
Residents Welfare Association, has said.
A.Nisha, a
resident who is working in Public Works Department, has urged the
Corporation authorities to dig four deep bore wells immediately in the
colony as the existing ones have no water yield.
Meanwhile,
the Corporation Mayor inaugurated a water filling station in
Mangalakulam in Zone-2 here on Thursday. A water tank with 30,000 litre
storage capacity was constructed and from there two lakh litres of water
will be supplied in two lorries to various areas in North Zone,
including Karpaga Nagar, Uthangudi, K.Pudur, Masthanpatti, Melamadai,
Thasildhar Nagar, Sathamangalam, Anna Nagar and K.K.Nagar.
R.Nanthagopal,
Corporation Commissioner, A.Mathuram, City Engineer in-charge and other
officials participated in the inaugural function.
