The Hindu      26.07.2012

Park at Thillai Nagar to be opened soon

ON THE WAY:Mayor A.Jaya inspecting works for establishing a park at Thillai Nagar on Wednesday.

A new park coming up to the rear of the Fort Railway Station at Thillai Nagar in the city is expected to be opened soon.The park would be declared open once the public toilets inside the park are ready, Mayor A.Jaya said after inspecting the progress of works on the project on Wednesday.

Landscape gardens

The park being established at a cost of Rs.25 lakhs would have a walking track, landscaped gardens and children play equipment.

Earlier, the Mayor during an inspection of development works in Ariyamangalam zone held consultations with Corporation Commissioner V.P.Thandapani and other officials on the construction of the proposed commercial complex with parking lot near the Diamond Jubilee building of the Gandhi Market.

Safety equipment

She also inspected the safety equipment purchased by the Corporation for its sanitary workers. While the Corporation has ordered safety gear worth Rs.18 lakhs for the sanitary workers, the first consignment of the equipment worth Rs.2 lakhs has arrived in the city.

A portion of the equipment has already been distributed to sanitary workers in the five new wards added to the Corporation following the delimitation exercise. The safety gear would be supplied to all sanitary workers in the city soon, she said.

 

The Hindu    26.07.2012

Residents urge Corpn. to maintain park

Needs facelift:Ward 15 residents want the Coimbatore Corporation to maintain the park in Aishwarya Colony, which in the recent past has had no maintenance. —PHOTO: S. SIVA SARAVANAN

 The Coimbatore Corporation-constructed park in Aishwarya Colony, P.N. Pudur, is hardly a year old. It does not appear so, though. Patches of green grass that were laid as part of the landscaping efforts, remain attached to the earth to indicate how good the park would have been when it was inaugurated.

Unregulated growth of shrubs, lights that do not glow and wilting ornamental plants – all add to the aged look of the park, which the Corporation threw open to the public in May 2011. Then the area came under Ward 59.

The then Ward Councillor R. Kalyanasundaram says that he mooted a proposal for the park at the locality as the residents did not have any recreation facility. The reserve site served as an ideal place for a park. And the civic body developed the ‘Jeeva Nutrandu Ninaivu Poonga’ at an approximate cost of Rs. 9 lakh.

Now the park serves the residents in the mornings and till sunset in the evenings. After sunset, the residents find it difficult to use the park as the lights do not glow, complains P. Velusamy, a resident.

The residents make use of the walkers’ path to exercise regularly. And the children play for a while in the evenings.He says that the park is not being put to effective use and the Corporation or the contractor who has taken it on contract have not appointed a caretaker or watchman.As a result, the park remains open and in the absence of light in the evenings, also serves as a good place for tipplers.

The residents want the Corporation to immediately repair the faulty lights and appoint a person to water the plants.Ward 15 Councillor N. Prabavathy says that she has asked the contactor to repair the faulty lights at the earliest. She also says that efforts are on to water the plants, remove the shrubs and keep it under lock and key when the residents do not use it.