CHENNAI: If the residents of PS Sivaswamy Salai in Mylapore concept that waking up to trenches in entrance of their houses one nice day with out prior data used to be dangerous sufficient, they have been in for a worse surprise on Monday night, when the entrance of 2 buildings caved in.
Blaming the collapse on shoddy making plans for an ongoing corporation mission to replace an current typhoon water drain on the stretch, residents stated the civic bodyhired contractor didn't take any precautions sooner than starting the paintings to be sure that properties were not broken.
They stated the contractor had overrun a buffer area between the compound partitions of buildings and current drains.
“On Monday night, the staircase resulting in probably the most properties caved in on account of the paintings. On Tuesday morning, the entrance portion of the second one house suffered the similar fate,” stated B Neelakandan, secretary, Vivekanandapuram Residents Welfare Association.
“Instead of digging up all the stretch immediately, the officers must have undertaken paintings on smaller stretches. Residents themselves are shovelling mud and laying scaffoldings and planks to provide power to the buildings of their properties,” he added.
The contractor started paintings on the 400m-long drain a month in the past but had barely made any progress.
The civic woes have left residents with a sense of déjà vu: The floods of December 2015 brought about a number of sewerage pipes to collapse, leaving craters in the course of the street and wrecking the stretch.
Sivaswamy Salai is a big bus route linking spaces around Mandaveli to other parts of the city. “Even while the paintings is being undertaken, buses and other heavy vehicles are still the use of the street. We are looking to persuade motorists to not force heavy vehicles on the highway,” Neelakandan added.
A senior corporation respectable admitted that the paintings carried out used to be lower than scratch. “There must were a setback area between the home and the existing SWD. Instructions were given to be sure that residents are now not brought about any inconvenience and the paintings will probably be deliberate higher. We will soak up the collapse with the contractor liable for the drain and expedite the paintings,” he stated.
The respectable denied that the intensity of the drain used to be being greater. “The current intensity of 2m is probably not changed,” he stated.
Blaming the collapse on shoddy making plans for an ongoing corporation mission to replace an current typhoon water drain on the stretch, residents stated the civic bodyhired contractor didn't take any precautions sooner than starting the paintings to be sure that properties were not broken.
They stated the contractor had overrun a buffer area between the compound partitions of buildings and current drains.
“On Monday night, the staircase resulting in probably the most properties caved in on account of the paintings. On Tuesday morning, the entrance portion of the second one house suffered the similar fate,” stated B Neelakandan, secretary, Vivekanandapuram Residents Welfare Association.
“Instead of digging up all the stretch immediately, the officers must have undertaken paintings on smaller stretches. Residents themselves are shovelling mud and laying scaffoldings and planks to provide power to the buildings of their properties,” he added.
The contractor started paintings on the 400m-long drain a month in the past but had barely made any progress.
The civic woes have left residents with a sense of déjà vu: The floods of December 2015 brought about a number of sewerage pipes to collapse, leaving craters in the course of the street and wrecking the stretch.
Sivaswamy Salai is a big bus route linking spaces around Mandaveli to other parts of the city. “Even while the paintings is being undertaken, buses and other heavy vehicles are still the use of the street. We are looking to persuade motorists to not force heavy vehicles on the highway,” Neelakandan added.
A senior corporation respectable admitted that the paintings carried out used to be lower than scratch. “There must were a setback area between the home and the existing SWD. Instructions were given to be sure that residents are now not brought about any inconvenience and the paintings will probably be deliberate higher. We will soak up the collapse with the contractor liable for the drain and expedite the paintings,” he stated.
The respectable denied that the intensity of the drain used to be being greater. “The current intensity of 2m is probably not changed,” he stated.
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