The Hindu 28.06.2011
Councillors review progress of Pilloor water supply work
A release from the civic body said Mayor R. Venkatachalam, Deputy Mayor N. Karthik and officials also visited the places where the pipeline for the main supply line was being laid, and the 30-lakh-litre tank in Ramakrishnapuram.
Councillors from the Congress and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and a few others, barring those from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, took part in the visit. A few councillors of Communist Party of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist) also kept away.
The officials explained the work being undertaken and said they were hopeful of completing the work by September.
A few days ago, a team comprising Mayor, Deputy Mayor, officials and chairmen of zones visited the dam and places where work was in progress. A release issued then said the civic body would be able to get an additional 20 million litres a day if the Pilloor Phase II pipeline was cleaned and additional water was pumped from the Pilloor Phase I scheme.
It also said that the water treatment plant was on the verge of completion.
AIADMK councillor P. Rajkumar said the two visits the Mayor had organised were an “eyewash” trying to mislead the public on the progress of work. The visits had come after Minister S.P. Velumani had urged the Corporation to speed up the work and inspected the site to study the progress made.
The previous AIADMK Government had initiated the Pilloor Phase II drinking water supply project and that was the reason the Corporation was not speeding up the work, he said.
The AIADMK councillors had repeatedly raised the issue of water shortage and slow progress in the project, he pointed out and said when the issues were raised in the Council the Mayor had done very little in that regard.
