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SPONTANEOUS STIR: A group of residents of Old Pallavaram staging a demonstration on Friday demanding improvements to the Dargah Road. TAMBARAM: Protesting the poor condition of the Dargah Road, more than 100 residents of Old Pallavaram resorted to a demonstration on Friday, urging the State Government to carry out improvement works immediately. The residents assembled near the intersection of the Dargah Road and P. V. Vaidyalingam Salai and pointed to the severely damaged portions of both roads, where restoration works were not carried out after they were dug up for laying sewers as part of the ongoing underground drainage project of the Pallavaram Municipality. The demonstration was spontaneous and unannounced and not led by any political party, organisation or even a welfare association. Hence the police and the officials of the municipality were taken by surprise. C. Ramkumar, a 57-year-old resident of the Dargah Road area since 1957, said he had never seen the road in such a bad shape as it is now. The road links the Grand Southern Trunk Road at Pallavaram with Keelkattalai, and passes through Bharathi Nagar, Pachaiyappan Nagar, Kamaraj Nagar, Parvathy Nagar and Vembuli Nagar, among other areas. Motorists are forced to take a long detour and autorickshaw drivers, who were present in large numbers during the demonstration, hesitate to enter some localities. Leakage of water from pipelines, stagnation of water and potholes have been making life miserable for them, the protestors said. Municipal officials and engineers from the State Highways Department came to the spot and pacified the residents, following which the residents dispersed. Engineers of the Highways Department said a stretch of two km of the Dargah Road was under their jurisdiction. The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, which is executing the drainage scheme for Pallavaram Municipality, had not taken up road restoration works properly after road-digging works. Scooped-out earth was not cleared and fresh layers of sand and mud were laid and hence the present condition. Only when the roads are properly restored, could the Highways Department take up permanent improvement works under the Chennai Metropolitan Development Programme, they added.
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