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Villivakkam residents air civic grievances

Staff Reporter

Seek better playgrounds, water facilities

CHENNAI: Residents of Villivakkam, mostly from the middle and lower class, aired their civic grievances to Mayor M. Subramaniam at a meeting organised on Saturday.

The complaints ranged from preventing encroachments to improving playgrounds and crematoriums besides better drinking water facilities and supply systems.

Unused water tanks

C. Durairaj, a resident of Agathiar Nagar, said the two unused water tanks in the locality were dilapidated. He and others feared that the tanks could collapse on houses close-by and wanted Metrowater to demolish the tanks.

He wanted the Mayor to take steps to renovate the corporation playground adjacent to the water tanks and to construct compound walls for protecting the vacant plots in the locality from encroachers.

Joyce Krishnamurthy, a resident of Mannady Street, complained about the gradual destruction of the temple tank on their street. She said the temple tank, which was once a water source for residents, was in a pathetic state.

No compound wall

With no compound wall to protect it, people dumped garbage there and used its environs as a public toilet.

Also, the residents noted that the proposal to construct a subway replacing the level-crossing at Villivakkam Railway Yard (West), for which foundation stone was laid a year ago, had still been a non-starter.

"Upgrade crematoria"

The two crematoria in Villivakkam were in a sorry state. While a number of crematoriums in the city have been electrified, the two in Villivakkam had not been upgraded.

The Villivakkam Exnora Innovators Club made a complaint related to sluggish conservancy and non-functioning of tube lights. The Mayor said he would take steps to redress the grievances.

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