From Kurichi Canal in the north to Sundakkamuthur Main Road in the south and from Old Post Office Road in the west to Kurichi Tank Bund in the east, the Ward 87 residents’ biggest demand now is water.
The residents get water only once in 25 - 30 days and that is insufficient. The residents want the corporation to improve the supply by at least five days so that they get water once in 20 days.
Sources in the corporation say that they have been supplying Aliyar and Siruvani water from the Amman Koil Road tank. But given the shortage of Siruvani water, the corporation uses the tank to supply water to the residents of the neighbouring Ward 88. Therefore, the duration of supply has increased.
One of the biggest challenges the corporation faces in Ward 87 is the high number of unapproved layouts and carrying out development works like erecting street lights or laying roads there. The layouts developed when the ward was part of the then Kuniamuthur Municipality.
During the 2010-11 expansion of limits of the Coimbatore Corporation, three wards of the municipality - Wards 1, 2 and 21 were clubbed to form the Ward 87.
But in the past five years, the corporation has improved street light coverage and constructed roads there as the unapproved layouts were thickly populated and the ward fell under Minister S.P. Velumani’s constituency, says the former ward councillor Kannamal Mayilvanan.
In Thiruvalluvar Nagar and other old town areas like Vethalaikara Street, disposal of sewage through proper sewerage system is a problem. Thiruvalluvar Nagar resident V. Asanar says that drainage is choked and the outlet at the Kurichi Tank is so full of solid waste that sewage does not flow.
He wants the corporation to clean the drain and repair damaged ones.
The stagnant sewage and solid waste have turned mosquito hotspots. The corporation must clean the waste and immediately take mosquito control measures, says K.P. Selvaraj, former chairperson of the Kuniamuthur Municipality.
The corporation should improve waste collection as well as it is not on a par with the old city, says Kalavai resident M. Allah Pitchai.
The other demand is for an underground drainage facility in the ward.
