Chennai Corporation negligent about water logging issues and milling and re-laying the main roads.
Motorists at Saidapet negotiate a milled road on Thursday. The road is to be re-laid shortly. - DC
Chennai: Three years ago, in an unÂdertaking to the MaÂdras High Court, the ChÂennai Corporation said that it would mill the top layer of the existing tar roads, recycle and then re-lay the road to ensure that their levels were not periodically raised, resulting in water logging. But, in reality, very few roads undergo this treatment, leaving homes in low-lying areas vulnerable to inundation by storm water.
“The civic body should consider the earlier idea of milling and then re-laying the roads,” says N. Sreenivasan, a resident of Choolai whose house, built in 1996, had two approach stairs.
“But after the corporation periodically laid the road, now the stairs and the road are at the same level, which will certainly lead to the inflow of storm and sewer water during the monsoon,” he fears.
“The corporation has been milling main roads and is re-laying selected stretches, but the interior narrow roads are often ignored as they are difficult to mill. But there has to be a solution to rising road levels,” says J. Chandran, a resident of Ambal Nagar, EkatÂthuthangal.
Milling is underway at main roads in Saidapet, according to a senior official, the project estimate including the cost of milling. In the case of main roads, the scraping work is taken up as per the engineering requirement, he added, but they would have to look into the matter of the interior roads.
( Source : dc )
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