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STRONG REACTION: Residents of Keelkattalai stage a demonstration on Tuesday to protest the construction of a lift station . — Photo : A. Muralitharan
TAMBARAM: Residents of Keelkattalai on Tuesday protested the construction of a lift station (a powerful pumping station) at a burial ground at Arulmurugan Nagar. The lift station is being built as part of the underground drainage network scheme currently on in Pallavaram Municipality. There are more than a dozen residential localities around the burial ground at Arulmurugan Nagar in Keelkattalai and the facility would not only shrink space of the only burial ground in the vicinity, but would also add to civic woes, the protestors said. They have urged the Pallavaram Municipality and the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, that is executing the project, to shift the site for the proposed facility to other vacant areas of Keelkattalai. Metrowater officials said the facility would not inconvenience residents and they had no other option but to build the lift station in the present location. The lift station in Keelkattalai was proposed to be built on Arulmurugan Main Road, but was dropped following protests from residents as it involved filling up of an abandoned well. In November, Labour Welfare Minister and Alandur MLA T.M. Anbarasan and Commissioner of Municipal Administration Niranjan Mardi, among others, inspected the site and decided to build the lift station on the adjacent burial ground. Following this, work commenced three days ago and on Monday, Metrowater officials deployed an earth moving equipment. Consequently, the residents staged a demonstration on Tuesday. Municipal Chairman E. Karunanidhi said the facility would consume only two cents of land and reassured residents they would not be exposed to inconvenience in any form. The Metrowater officials said they had taken all factors into consideration while preparing detailed project report and only then decided to install a lift station at Arulmurugan Nagar. It was not feasible to build this facility at any other place in Keelkattalai. The purpose of this lift station — being built at an estimated cost of Rs. 35 lakh and equipped to handle up to 5 lakh litres of sewage a day — was to transport sewage from low-level areas to a gravity system interceptor, before being taken to the main pumping station.
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