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RK Nagar seeks drinking water, sewer connections

The quality of life has not improvised for RK Nagar residents as safe water and sanitation is still an issue for the backward constituency.

Chennai: RK Nagar benefited by elected AIADMK leader J. Jayalalithaa, but the constituency is still a neglected neighbourhood, where residents suffer drinking water shortage and sewer overflow. The poll-bound constituency also lags behind in parks, playground and bus terminus. Visits by Deccan Chronicle to the packed neighbourhoods of R K Nagar (VOC Nagar, CG colony, Power Kuppam, Korukhupet, Thidir Nagar and TNHB quarters) revealed water shortage in several parts of the constituency. Residents also posed with empty pots in Kasima Nagar demanding drinking water through pipes.

Though Chennai metro water is dispatching tankers to the tail end areas, the growing summer demand in Washermenpet and Kasimedu makes the supply insufficient.

“Yes, it is a fact that the constituency lacks development when compared to south Chennai. During my tenure as a local MLA and state minister, sewage connection was given and the Tondiarpet bridge constructed. The retired IAS officer Shantha Sheela Nair was instrumental in developing R K Nagar”, recalls former minister and AIADMK rebel candidate E Madhusudhanan.

During Jayalalithaa's tenure, the constituency benefited from MLA funds and the state constructed new hospitals, Amma canteens, LED street lights, and a community college. But a lot has to improve in the labour-dominated constituency, adds Madhusudhanan.

After Jaya was elected from R K Nagar, the locality got new street lights and power cuts were reduced by installing new transformers, but there is no respite from traffic snarls and air pollution from sea port, says R Ganesh, proprietor, Ganesh Transports. The quality of life has not improvised for RK Nagar residents as safe water and sanitation is still an issue for the backward constituency.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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