The Hindu        23.02.2012

Councillors demand improvement in water supply

Monday's meeting of councillors representing wards in North Zone saw them demand improvement in water supply, deployment of more conservancy workers, more bins among others.

Ward 29 Councillor R. Mahadevan complained that not only drinking water but also borewell water supply was insufficient to meet the people's needs. He wondered how the Corporation would be able to manage the ensuing summer.

Citing allotment of funds for wards, he wanted to know the basis the North Zone administration adopted in distributing funds. “Is it area, or population or political affiliation?” He also wanted to know when the Corporation would provide vehicles for his ward for clearing garbage. Bullock cards did not meet the needs.

For P.V. Subramanian, Councillor, Ward 47, it was mosquito menace on the agenda. It had been ages since his ward's residents or he spotted the Corporation's vehicles used to control mosquitoes. He also spoke about the need for efforts to control street dog menace.

S.R. Gopalakrishnan, Councillor, Ward 28, said that conservancy work suffered in his ward because of insufficient number of workers. The number of workers the Corporation promised to deploy had not been sent. He also complained about faulty streetlights.

S. Saradha Shanmugam, Councillor, Ward 26, also spoke about insufficient workers. Drainage cleaning work suffered in her ward because of inadequate staff. V. Vathsala, Councillor, Ward 1, demanded mass cleaning camp in all the wards in the zone.

North Zone Chairman P. Rajkumar promised to look into the issues and assured the councillors that the focus would be on developing added areas.

Later, the councillors passed resolutions on laying roads, cleaning public convenience facilities, improving amenities in market, etc.