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Kadaperi residents want water tank put to use

— Photo: A.Muralitharan

WAITING FOR ACTION: Residents of Kadaperi, Tambaram, want the authorities to start operating the water tank in their locality.

TAMBARAM: Residents of Kadaperi at Tambaram have urged the government and the local body to start using the overhead water tank in the locality that was dedicated one year ago.

A ground-level service reservoir (sump), an overhead water tank, underground pipelines and a motor room were constructed at Kadaperi, at a cost of Rs. 37 lakhs, under the State Government’s Megacity scheme and dedicated to the residents at a function in September, 2006. Union Minister and South Chennai MP T.R. Baalu and MLA S.R. Raja took part in the function.

But residents are yet to get water, though the Palar water supplied to the Tambaram municipality by the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board was sufficient to meet their need.

On Saturday, a small section of residents and members of the All-India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam staged a demonstration in front of the tank.

L.R. Chezhian, AIADMK councillor of Ward No. 2, wondered why the municipality was delaying operating these facilities which, he said, were constructed with taxpayers’ money. Water supply was provided for three weeks in July, but stopped soon after. He charged the municipality and the government with having stopped the supply deliberately, as the ward was represented by an opposition party councillor.

However, municipal authorities denied the allegation.

They explained that all the works were completed only by June-end, and they started a trial supply from July 1. The trial was conducted for three weeks to ensure there was no leakage in the distribution system.

The officials said the system was now in place, but they were waiting for the government’s consent to provide individual connections.

Once they got the nod, they would place the subject for discussion at a council meeting and start the work soon. About 300 applications for individual connections were being examined, they said.

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