Residents of Jalladianpet in Perungudi zone complain of poor water supply and lack of sewerage network in their area.
Most of the residential colonies that formed part of Jalladianpet village panchayat under St. Thomas Mount Block were merged with Chennai Corporation when its borders were expanded in 2011.
Ward 191, which had huge parcels of vacant area until 2011, is now a big residential area as adjacent localities such as Sholinganallur, Semmanchery and Siruseri have developed a lot.
The division comprises several residential pockets such as Padmavathi Nagar, Pallavan Nagar, Nesavalar Nagar, Lakshmi Nagar, Maheswari Nagar and Jagannathapuram.
The swanky apartment complexes give an upper residential status to the ward. Green Court area and Jeyachandran Nagar are preferred by builders planning apartment complexes but the infrastructure here is not on a par with the city.
Proximity to the IT Corridor has led to phenomenal growth of the area during the past decade but the ward still lacks basic infrastructural necessities of a metro.
“Residents have been struggling to get piped water connection and under-ground drainage facilities, which is dragging on for more than six or seven years,” said M. Chockalingam, secretary, Federation of Residents Welfare Associations - Pallikaranai.
The ward has two ponds, one near Periyar Street and another in Nesavalar Nagar. Unfortunately, the local bodies in 2011 and 2017 failed to tap the resources and allowed them to be used as a cesspool for the sewage, residents complain.
The federation members said the widening of the Velachery Main Road from Balaji Dental College up to Medavakkam is the need of the hour.
A senior official of the Greater Chennai Corporation in Perungudi Zone said that Metrowater was being provided through water tankers. He said that on an average 175 trips of Metrowater tankers are being operated in the area and conservancy works are regularly taken up.
New facilities
As a long-term perspective, Chennai Metrowater is constructing an over-head tank with capacity of 20 lakh litres in IIT Colony and two 9-lakh litre tanks near Narayanapuram bus stop, a Chennai Metrowater official said.
