Housing Board Residents Protest Poor Maintenance Of Premises, Real Estate News, ET RealEstate
MADURAI: Residents of Melavasal housing Board and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) party members on Wednesday carried out a protest against the Madurai corporation’s poor upkeep of the housing board complex.
Around 4,500 residents live in 1,076 houses in the housing board near Periyar Bus stand amid leaky underground drainage network, stink and garbage piled up inside the premises.
The Melavasal housing board complex which was constructed in 2013 was handed over to residents the next year. The solid waste management of the complex and services including underground drainage and drinking water connections were handed over to the corporation in the 2016-17 financial year.
Many open drainage canals inside the premises are blocked by solid waste while underground drainage networks are blocked due to silting of pipelines. housing board association president V Vaikal Durai, of said, “Most of the sanitary workers with the corporation are residing in the complex but the the cleanliness of their own residential complex is in pathetic state. This is due to fewer number of sanitary workers assigned to clean there and lack of mass cleaning in the last few months.” He said that the corporation is neglecting the housing board.
P Ravi Kumar, Madurai south secretary of VCK, said, “Most of them are sanitary workers living in the complex and corporation follows a modern way of untouchability by denying basic services to residents of the complex.” He said a road picketing will be conducted if the corporation doesn’t heed the demand.
