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November 30, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:32 am IST – CHENNAI:
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A street at TNHB Colony in Avadi damaged due to heavy rains —Photo: M. Vedhan
The Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) layout in Avadi looks like a haunted town as nearly all residents have vacated their flooded homes.
Though rains have stopped, it has left an indelible scar with battered roads.
The heavy rains combined with poor drainage facility have washed away the road surface from streets, leaving behind thick layers of slush.
A resident of 6th Block said the road infrastructure in the layout which has three sectors with over 75 streets is left in a complete mess.
Most of the TNHB layout, residents complained, has not been provided with paved roads for many years. The rains have damaged even the little gravel that was on the streets. He complained that the poorly designed canal, built to transport rain water from several areas of the municipality including Heavy Vehicles Factory, Kovilpathagai, Gowripettai and CTH Road, was unable to drain it and hence the streets were flooded.
The TNHB formed the layout adjacent to Paruthipattu Lake and every year, they were suffering from flooding, residents said, adding that Avadi Municipality’s response to the problem too has been poor.
An activist in TNHB layout said that despite residents complaining about bad road conditions and water stagnation, the municipal administration had not taken steps to drain out the water.
Activists are angry that though residents of TNHB layout, Sankar Nagar, Vasantham Nagar and Vivekananda Nagar suffered heavy losses due to the damage of appliances in their homes, neither the Thiruvallur district administration nor the Central team visited their locality, the activist added.
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