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SPIRITED CAUSE: Members of the DYFI and the AIDWA staging a protest against location of liquor outlets in Pallavaram on Wednesday. TAMBARAM: Wednesday turned out to be a day of protests by residents, youth organisations and political parties in the southern suburbs of Chennai. Some members of the Centre for Indian Trade Unions were detained and later let off when they attempted to establish an autorickshaw stand in Alandur. Residents of Pozhichalur took to the streets protesting erratic water supply and poor condition of civic amenities. In Pallavaram, members of the Democratic Youth Federation of India and the India Democratic Women’s Association staged a demonstration, urging the State government to either close down or shift a few liquor outlets in the area. Autorickshaw standFollowing the opening of a segment of the grade separator at Kathipara, government buses, both city and long distance, towards Koyambedu halt either at Azarkhana bus stop on Grand Southern Trunk Road or near the traffic signal on Inner Ring Road. For the benefit of commuters getting down at Azarkhana stop and bound for the Guindy Railway Station and other areas in Adambakkam, St. Thomas Mount, Alandur, Pazhavanthangal and Nanganallur, a section of autorickshaw drivers are reported to have approached the Chennai City Police, seeking permission to set up an autorickshaw stand there. CITU members said the permission was granted and they decided to organise a simple inaugural function on Wednesday evening. As information reached the police, a few dozen personnel were deployed at the spot. Police officials told CITU leaders that permission was granted neither for the stand nor for the inaugural function. A total of 84 members of the trade union were detained under Section 151 of Code of Criminal Procedure (preventive arrest), taken to a marriage hall in Alandur and released after some time. It included K. Mahendran, Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLA from Perambur constituency, who was invited as the chief guest at the function. Erratic water supplyEarlier in the day, women residents of Ward No. 3 of Pozhichalur panchayat took to streets protesting the erratic supply of drinking water. Residents of Sivasankaran Nagar and Malliga Nagar said they received water only once in a fortnight. Panchayat officials said water was supplied to residents from their own sources in addition to supplies from Chennai Metrowater. If problems were not attended to at the earliest, they would stage a protest on a larger scale, residents warned. Liquor outletsIn Pallavaram, members of the DYFI and the AIDWA said liquor outlets of the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation near the Pallavaram bus stand, railway station and a government school were causing nuisance. The liquor stores should either be closed down or at least shifted to a place where it did not cause inconvenience to anyone, they said.
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