Ward 91, with over 15,000 people, marks the southern boundary of the 100-ward Coimbatore Corporation. Formed by merging three wards of the then Kuniamuthur Municipality - Wards 9, 10 and 11, it now extends from Om Sakthi Nagar-Milekal in the north and Manjipallam Medu in the south and from Perur Main Road in the west to Palakkad Road in the east.
Kolathupalayam is the old town area and the relatively new residential localities include KPR Colony, Sripal Nagar, Lavanya Garden, Gokulam Colony. In all these areas, water supply is the big issue.
Of late, the problem has accentuated so much so that the Corporation supplies drinking water from the Aliyar drinking water scheme only twice a month, which is thoroughly inadequate, says resident R.Shanmugam.
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Ayya Gounder Street resident P. Ramaraj says that with the 50 pots the residents get, they will have to manage for 15 days. At times it becomes difficult as the non-potable water supply is equally bad. The Corporation’s supply of ground water too is just for one or two hours a day.
Mr. Shanmugam says that they are worried about the coming months when the situation could get worse.
Further, in almost all the newly developed localities, absence of storm water drain is a problem. Though most residents have choke-pit to take care of discharge from their houses, the absence of outlet for rain water leads to stagnation in a few pockets, which the Corporation should immediately address, says Mahalakshmi Nagar resident K.M. Chandrasekaran.
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Waste management is also a cause for concern. Corporation conservancy workers collect waste from households but not in all the areas. They dump the waste in the nearest bin, from where the Corporation fails to collect at regular intervals.
The result is that there is garbage lying around, rues Lavanya Garden resident G. Thirugnanam.
Not just that the workers dump debris and other waste along a natural drain there and also in the local burial ground, complains Mr. Shanmugam.