The past two days’ rain has kept the Coimbatore Corporation officials on their toes. Since Friday, the officials have been rushing to low-lying areas to oversee operations to remove water and to railway underpasses and subways to keep them free of water and ready for traffic.
Corporation Commissioner S. Ganesh inspected vulnerable places to see if the officials had taken preventive action and remedial action. As of Saturday evening, there were complaints of inundation near the Ondipudur bus stand but officials were on the job.
On Friday, the Corporation officials ensured that the motors were operated to remove water from the Avinashi Road and North Coimbatore subways. Corporation health wing officials said that they had kept ready rapid response teams and medical teams to look into emergencies. At dengue-prone places in all the five zones and other vulnerable places, Corporation teams were addressing public over the public address system to remove articles that stored rainwater and thereby aided mosquito breeding.
Until now the Corporation workers were carrying out the operations by inspecting houses.
The civic body had now put the onus on the residents by asking them to remove disused articles that served as mosquito breeding sources and warning them of action under the Tamil Nadu Public Act.
