: Residents of Nawab Habibullah Nagar, Mudichur, have requested the Mudichur Panchayat to ensure better civic amenities in the locality.
According to Nawab Habibullah Nagar Residents’ Welfare Association, more than 90 families live in the locality, the layout plan for which was sanctioned in 1993 and the families began to settle down in the area in 1998. The land is a gift deed from the Commissioner, Chitlapakkam Town Panchayat, in 1993. “A well, constructed on an eight-feet road, is overgrown with shrubs. We told the Panchayat to demolish the well, as it is of no use. A portion of the land, measuring 64 cents, that was earmarked for a park under the Open Space Reserve, has not been put to its intended use.
The Association collected a fund of Rs.50,000 and put up benches and fences surrounding this land in the hope that it would soon be developed into a park,” members of the Association said.
Letters requesting execution of developmental works in the locality have been sent to various agencies and authorities concerned, including Chief Minister's Cell, project director, Kancheepuram Collectorate and the Commissioner of Municipality and Panchayats.
“The roads in the locality have not been laid for years. A resolution was passed to lay tar roads in the locality in 2009, at a meeting of representatives from village panchayats.
There are no street lamps in our locality. We have installed lamp posts with sodium vapour lights in and around the locality with the help of donors.”
“Despite the layout plan for the locality having been approved by the Madras Metropolitan Development Authority, civic amenities are poor,” members pointed out.
They also requested the panchayat to provide supply of potable drinking water. Presently, the water is unfit for consumption.
They have requested the culling of pigs which are reported by residents to be ranging free across the locality. An elected representative of the Mudichur municipality has, however, rejected the residents’ complaints, maintaining that there is no basis to them and that water is fit for consumption.
The Municipality is taking steps to develop the park soon, he added.
