Although a full year has passed, no action has been taken by the Mangadu Town Panchayat to prevent flooding of Jeeva Nagar during the monsoon.
On behalf of the residents, a petition was sent to the Secretary, Municipal Administration and Water Supply, Government of Tamil Nadu, Dr. Niranjan Mardi last year. The Kancheepuram District Collector and the Director of Town Panchayats were also contacted with similar appeals.
It is learnt that the Mangadu Panchayat has responded to the active measures by residents, by issuing notices to some of them on alleged building plan violations.
The residents have been demanding that at least 'kutcha' roads be laid, using building debris available from demolitions. This plea has not been heeded by the Panchayat or by the other which of the DMK Government which are responsible for rural development, health and welfare.
It is shocking that the Government has not audited the single road built in Jeeva Nagar, Kattupakkam, under the Anaithu Grama Anna Marumalarchi Thittam, a flagship scheme, purportedly at a cost of Rs. 5 lakhs for a stretch of about 250 metres. This is a serious fraud on the public exchequer and the Secretary, Rural Development, Government of Tamil Nadu, Mr. K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty should conduct a spot check. It will reveal that the Panchayat deliberately created a road at a level far below the known water-level mark for this area (where the Panchayat has allowed top soil to be excavated for years before also allowing it to be approved by CMDA and sold by BLB Estates of T. Nagar Chennai, as a residential layout.
Will the DMK Government's chief officers in the two respective departments, Dr. Mardi and Mr. Shetty act to create the necessary infrastructure?
