Efforts on for daily supply of drinking water
The Hindu
THOOTHUKUDI
THOOTHUKUDI
The corporation is taking steps to ensure supply of drinking water everyday to the residents, Mayor Jegan Periyasamy has said while chairing the corporation council meeting here on Friday.
Councillors said the drinking water, being supplied to the residents in odd hours, should be supplied at ‘comfortable hours’ and give sufficient supply to the areas where domestic connections are huge in number.
Mr. Jegan said the corporation was distributing 60 million litres of drinking water a day since 4 a.m. through 30 overhead tanks on getting water from Vallanadu pumping station.
“Since trial run for giving drinking water everyday to the residents is going on, the regular supply will begin soon after the technical glitches, if any, are addressed. The public should cooperate with the corporation by not wasting the precious drinking water so that daily supply of drinking water can be sustained,” Mr. Jegan said.
One of the resolutions passed in today’s council meeting empowers the corporation officials to increase the fine being collected from the owners of the impounded stray cattle by 100%. “Since the owners pay the trivial amount to get back their domestic animals kept in the ‘goshala’ where the impounded cattle are handled over by the corporation, they don’t feel the pinch. So, the fine is being doubled,” said Mr. Jegan.
The councillors expressed displeasure over collecting exorbitant fee for cremating bodies in the corporation’s cremation ground, which is being run by a voluntary organisation. Since the corporation was maintaining the cremation ground and the voluntary organisation was only operating it, the urban civic body should fix a minimum amount for cremating bodies, they said.
Pakistan coach Gary Kirsten stated that “not so great decision making” contributed to his side’s defeat to India in the Group-A T20 World Cup clash here on Sunday. The batting unit came apart in the chase, after being well placed at 72 for two. With 48 runs needed from eight overs, Pakistan found a way to panic and lose. “Maybe not so great decision making,” Kirsten said at the post-match press conference, when asked to explain the loss.
“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.