Members of the Sivalingapuram Residents’ Welfare Association on Friday observed a fast near the Uzhavar Sandhai in Singanallur urging the Coimbatore Corporation to give up its plan to construct a railway underpass in the area.
V. Deivendran, a resident, said that after the Chief Minister had promised a road-over bridge, the State Government had issued an order – G.O. dated December 7, 2011 – for a road-over bridge for Rs. 26.70 crore. It also announced Rs. 4 crore towards compensation for residents whose lands were to be acquired. But the Corporation under the then Mayor S.M. Velusamy passed a resolution in 2013 demanding railway underpass. This led to stoppage of the bridge work. If the underpass were to be constructed, over 3,000 residents of Surya Nagar, Sivalingapuram, Kamatchi Nagar, Kannan Nagar and 11 other areas would be affected as vehicle movement would be curtailed, he said.
