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‘Operation eviction’ renders relief to road users

Doing public good: The ’operation eviction’ on the Big Bazaar Street in Pudukottai.

PUDUKOTTAI: The ‘operation eviction’ launched by the Municipal authorities on the Main street here recently has gone down well with the residents of Pudukottai town, with a good number of structures, including pucca ones, having been demolished, providing adequate space for the road-users.

The ‘operation eviction’ on the South Main; East Main; West Main streets have, indeed, been a great relief to the road-users. Free flow of traffic has been ensured in the past two days.

More importantly, the clearing of pavement vendors particularly the vegetable dealers, has ensured more space to the members of the public. The encroachers, by occupying the roads, posed a great hardship to the pedestrians, leave alone the ordeals faced by the two-wheeler riders and other vehicle drivers.

The roads in the town, designed during the erstwhile Samasthanam era, are not only spacious but also provides a separate storm drainage channel to carry over the rain and flood waters during monsoon.

Residents feel that due to non-maintenance over the years and due to encroachments, these channels had got silted. A cross-section of residents wished that with the ‘operation eviction’, the Municipal authorities should initiate action to desilt the channels.

Referring to the similar operation executed more than a decade ago, many residents that the encroachers had resettled exactly on the same site. Appreciating the Municipal authorities’ action in this regard, they suggested that a strict vigil be kept against the recurring problem by the encroachers.

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