Complaints related to UGD mount during grievances redressal meet in Madurai

MADURAI

Complaints relating to underground drainage systems, either absent or faulty, kept mounting at the grievances redressal meet held at Zone I of Madurai Corporation on Wednesday.

The meeting was chaired by Mayor Indirani Ponvasanth, Corporation Commissioner Simranjeet Singh Kahlon and Zone I Chairperson S. Vasuki.

Over 20 residents of Ganapathy Nagar Residents Welfare Association petitioned the panel demanding for tar roads and laying of UGD lines.

Association president G. Annamalai said that majority of the residents have suffered a fall one time or the other. “The approved plots might have been farm lands earlier and as a result the soil becomes slushy even during slight shower. The homes are inundated and the carriageways disappears making it difficult for the residents, hence we want a UGD system and proper stormwater drain,” he said.

R. Uma Maheshwari, a resident of Meenakshi Nagar noted that commuters, especially children find it extremely difficult to use the muddy roads. “It becomes increasingly risky during rainy season and we are left to suffer,” she said. The same was petitioned for by a few residents of Kosakulam.

Lack of streetlights was another common issue put forth by most residents.

Residents of Ganapathy Nagar in ward 10 said that they have been petitioning since 2019 for streetlights and tar roads, and lamented that it still remains a dream for them.