As dusk descends on Chidambaram Nagar, off Sathyamangalam Road near Saravanampatti, the area moves into darkness as the street lights hardly glow.
It has been so for over three months now as the repeated complaints of the residents to Coimbatore Corporation to repair the faulty lights have not yielded the desired results, the residents say.
Of the 20-plus street lights in the area of five streets, only two to three lights glow. The rest have been faulty for long, complains resident T. Pradeep.
The area residents’ welfare association president G. Shanmugasundaram says every time the residents would complain to the Corporation, they would get assurances in return that the lights would be repaired at the earliest. But those assurances remained unkept.
In a latest attempt to get the Corporation to repair the lights, Mr. Pradeep said he had taken the issue to the notice of Corporation on March 27 by sending messages over social media network, but there was no relief.
The faulty lights only added to their existing problems as the Chidambaram Nagar had not seen either new roads or repair work on damaged roads for long. The last time the locality saw new roads was at least a decade ago, rues Mr. Shanmugasundaram, a resident of the area for around three decades.
On the water supply front too, the locality had been discriminated against. It had been over a month since the Corporation supplied ground water. Here too, the residents’ efforts in getting the Corporation to improve the supply had failed.
The Corporation supplied drinking water once in 12 days or so but the quantity was inadequate as the water lasted hardly a week. The pressure with which the Corporation supplied water was low, the residents said.
Responding to the residents’ complaints, a Corporation official said the civic body was in the process of repairing roads and it would soon attend to complaints in the area. As far as repairing of faulty street lights, it was wrong to allege that the lights did not glow for months together.
The residents had been regularly complaining about lights and the Corporation had been attending to those.
Regarding water supply, the officials said work was on to improve water supply to the locality and also others in Ward 30.
