Residents seek drinking water supply, retrieval of free house sites occupied through ‘fake documents’
Residents in Tamil Nadu have submitted petitions to the District Collector regarding severe drinking water shortages and illegal land occupation. The petitions also requested the relocation of liquor shops causing public disturbances.
Why it matters
It highlights the challenges faced by marginalized communities in accessing basic utilities and legal land rights.
In search of permanent solution for their drinking water crisis, residents of two villages submitted petition to District Collector Vishu Mahajan on Monday.
The residents of Tamil Nadu Urban Livelihood Development Mission apartment in Ayyanadaippu near the District Collectorate said in their petition that only 50 of the 220 houses in the apartment had been occupied by the families due to perennial drinking water crisis. The families living in this apartment were buying a pot of drinking water for ₹10 as the salty water being supplied by the Ayyanadaippu village panchayat could not be used for cooking or drinking.
Hence, the Collector should take appropriate steps for giving drinking water supply to them, they said.
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