Plea to improve water supply

 

Members of the Peoples' Welfare Front (Makkal Nalan Kakkum Koottu Iyakkam) staging a demonstration in Coimbatore on Friday.

More than 50 residents of Vannarapettai in Ward 5 of Udhagamandalam Municipality organised a demonstration on the Ooty-Kothagiri Road on Friday.

The Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Communist Party of India-Marxist, Communist Party of India and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi organised a demonstration in Sivananda Colony on Friday demanding that water supply be improved.

R.R. Mohankumar (MDMK), V. Ramamoorthy(CPI-M), K.M. Selvaraj (CPI) and J. Ilakkiyan (VCK), led the demonstration. They condemned the Coimbatore Corporation for poor traffic management. The civic body has failed to regulate traffic during peak hours, they said.

The corporation’s delay in re-laying roads it dug for underground drainage resulted in roads becoming unfit for vehicle movement. They condemned the State Government for its delay in shifting the high-tension power lines for the new flyover in Gandhipuram.

If the authorities failed to improve the water supply, they would soon organise a protest in front of the civic body’s office in Town Hall.

P.R. Natarajan, a former MP, and M. Arumugham, MLA, were present.

Udhagamandalam

More than 50 residents of Vannarapettai in Ward 5 of Udhagamandalam Municipality organised a demonstration on the Ooty-Kothagiri Road on Friday demanding that water supply be improved. They had held a protest a week ago with the demand carrying empty pots.

Te municipal officials had promised to restore water supply from the Parson Valley reservoir, as they found the alternate day supply through lorries thoroughly inadequate.

Senior citizens found it difficult to collect water from lorries.

The residents said that they, however, gave up the protest following promises from the officials. But things did not improve. They wanted the civic body to complete the third water supply scheme at the earliest.

Municipal Commissioner Sardar promised them that the the situation would improve in a day or two.

Vannarapettai is home to 2,000-odd families.