Residents seek drinking water tax waiver as Tirunelveli Corporation fails to ensure supply

Residents of an upper-middle-class area and an apartment complex in Tirunelveli have urged the Corporation to waive the drinking water tax, as the urban civic body has failed to supply drinking water to them for a prolonged period.

The residents of Pioneer Kumarasamy Nagar Extension in Ward 41, opposite the Veinthankulam new bus stand, submitted petitions to Corporation officials on Tuesday, saying around 100 houses had been without drinking water supply for four months.

They said repeated complaints to officials of the Melapalayam Zone of the Tirunelveli Corporation, Mayor G. Ramakrishnan, Deputy Mayor K.R. Raju, Commissioner Monika Rana, councillor Sangeetha and other senior officials had not yielded any result.