Tamil Nadu   

TNEB staff quarters vacant for years

– Photo: N. Bashkaran

No takers: TNEB quarters, near Mallipatti, on Singarapettai -Nadupatti road in Krishnagiri district remain uninhabited for years.

KRISHNAGIRI: When the State-owned Tamil Nadu Electricity Board is in the grip of a financial crunch, staff quarters at Mallipatti on the Singarapettai-Ettipatti main road have been lying unused for many years.

There are 15 RRC buildings with the plinth area of 11,586 square feet that did not attract the staff, despite being provided with all the fittings, service roads, street lights, power connection.

TNEB sources in Tirupatthur told The Hindu that these buildings were constructed on a 8.82 acre plot adjacent to its sub-station in 1984 at Rs. 3.79 lakh (present market value is estimated to be several lakhs).

As the quarters are situated in a remote place, TNEB staff are not willing to relocate their families. The purpose of constructing the quarters was the availability of the staff on an SOS call.

After the construction was completed, some TNEB employees stayed in the quarters for a few years.

Since the last four years the quarters have been lying vacant, locals said.

Lack of proper medical and public transport facilities, education for children, potable drinking water and not adequate safety are the reasons cited by the staff for not occupying the quarters.

Official sources said that this is only the tip of an iceberg. In many places in the State, staff quarters built by the board were lying vacant. Some of the buildings were badly damaged.

In some places though, buildings are in good condition to live and the staff are willing move in.

Local people in Mallipatti said the buildings were being used by the anti-social elements during night.

They add that either the board should use the building or it should allow poor people to live there.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Making musical instruments traditionally
Engagements
Honorarium given to fishermen
Assumes office
Car goes up in flames
TNEB staff quarters vacant for years
384 teachers attend counselling
Increase minimum wage for farm labourers: Association
ADSP takes charge
Held
4 arrested, rice seized
Valvil Ori festival in Kolli Hills
Rice seized
Fragrant goods
DRO assumes office
Forest officials rescue two deer
Inter-school science exhibition
Water scarce
Preparedness of police in coastal security to be ascertained
Air Conditioned Luxury Homes
Attractive offers by SOTC
17th batch of PGDM inaugurated
Moped rider killed
“Parents’ role important in shaping children’s career”
Milk cards sales
‘Sthapana Vizha’
Man held for attempt to cheat job-seekers
Tragic end
Panchayats told to control dog menace
Programme for service organisations
AITUC cadres stage demonstration
“Register orphanages”
Fake currency seized
DCC for banking development in Tirupur
Four detained under Goondas Act
Mettur level
No water supply
Dying for water
Medicos strike enters 9th day
Consumer Day observed
Cheque and cash missing from mutt in Karur
All vehicles get bull’s eye pasted on headlights
For they know not what they do
Thousands take part in Azhither festival
Poor children to get computer knowledge
Agri clinics inspected by Collector
Apparao Bahadur dead
Operation Barricade successful
Stress on post-harvesting
Wearing a vacant look
Detention of MDMK activist under NSA revoked
Office-bearers
Collector promises industrial development
Bench ‘no’ to discharge of policemen
Solatium given
Left parties stage walkout
One more person succumbs to burns

Copyright © 2009, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu