The Coimbatore Corporation has proposed to lay and repair roads at Rs. 100 crore in the city. A resolution the civic body passed at the urgent Council meeting on Friday said that the civic body would take up new road and repair work for 189.17 km with funds from the Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Limited.
The passage of the resolution on the road work triggered a walkout by the Opposition Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam councillors, who alleged that in the wards they represented the number of roads works had been few. A. Nandhakumar, the DMK leader in the Council, said that in Wards 11, 33, 52, 43, and 49 there was not even a road work that the Corporation had proposed to take up.
And, in Wards 16, 47, 56, 36 and 61 the number of works to be taken up were either one or two.
This showed the bias the Corporation had towards the residents of the wards the DMK councillors represented and this bias was evident even as the Mayor P. Rajkumar had promised that the Corporation would not discriminate the wards represented by councillors other than those from the ruling AIADMK.
The Corporation Council resolved to give the go-ahead for construction of the South Zone office, award contract to a private agency for impounding community dogs and pigs, repair the Siruvani main pipeline from the foothills of Siruvani Reservoir to the storage reservoir in Bharathi Park and construct a few more bus shelters in the city.
The council also resolved to distribute drinking water through lorries to a few water-deficient areas, take up construction of biogas plant at the Corporation R.S. Puram Higher Secondary School and introduce wi-fi connectivity in a few areas in the city on a trial basis and take up the Guinness Record attempt for ‘Largest Recycling Lesson’.
