Plea to remove toilet built on drainage channel, cattle shed on the road
Residents in Tirunelveli have submitted petitions to the local Corporation demanding the removal of illegal encroachments, including a toilet and a cattle shed built on public drainage and roads. Additionally, local political figures are threatening protests over the lack of road repairs and infrastructure maintenance.
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Urban encroachment and poor infrastructure maintenance highlight ongoing challenges in municipal governance and public service delivery in growing Indian cities.
Urging the Corporation to act tough against the encroachers, who have built a toilet and a cattle shed on the drainage channel and the road respectively, causing stagnation of sewage and consequent poor sanitary condition in their area, the public submitted petitions to the officials here on Tuesday.
A group of residents of Karuvelankundu Street in Tirunelveli Town, ward 16, said a resident of this street heaped sand and stones inside the drainage channel in front of his house to facilitate the construction of the toilet. As the sewage was overflowing from the blocked drainage channel, the residents informed the Corporation’s sanitary officers, who warned the violator to remove the illegal structure.
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