The Times of India reports on how India’s galloping urbanization and construction often gets ahead of itself. In Nolambur, formerly a village outside Chennai, but now a growing town, residents who bought flats failed to notice that there was no sewer system in place, and that the sewage treatment plant in the block didn’t work. Sewage is everywhere. ‘”We occupied the flat six months ago,” said residnet P. S. Sridharan. “Since then, my wife has fallen sick with respiratory disorders and is constantly under medication. The sewage has spoiled the rainwater harvesting system built along the corridor.” With no option, residents remain indoors and keep their windows shut.’ A representative from the developer attributed the problem to “a technical snag.” I suspect the snag will still be in place six months from now.
Nolambur
© 2009 Rose George
Posted in Blog — 30th April 2009
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Nolambur village near Mogappair is a MESS todaywith NO drainage.The area is fully inundated during monsoons, there are no sewage lines either, and the development is too huge for the roads to cope with. Builders such as DABC have built hundreds of flats without proper drainage facilities and they have now been pumping untreated sewage into the groundwater table. If this goes on, the groundwater would become totally unusable. And they still continue to build several hundreds of flats. I wonder how such huge apartment complexes get planning permission inspite of the lack of basic infrastructure like proper roads, storm water drains, and sewage pipelines. Even the drainage facilities built by the TNHB in the places sold by them are overflowing with sewage water let in by the large apartments.
NOLAMBUR IS HAVING VERY GOOD ROADS. OUR SINCERLY THANKS TO THE CONCERN PERSONS FOR EXCELLENT ROAD MAINTAINED BY THEM. IF WE WALK ON THE ROAD NO NEED OF DIGEST TABLETS BECAUSE IT WILL DIGEST IF YOU WALK.
DOCTOR WILL GET MORE PATIENT FROM THIS AREA BODY ACHE ETC. WHEN YOU TRAVEL IN NOLAMBUR. VEHICLE REPAIR PERSONS WILL GET JOB .LOT OF SCOPE IF YOU RESIDING HERE. TO START ANY BSINESS
WHEN PERSON HAVE TO LIVE IN THE AREA WHY TO TELL ROADS ARE BAD. NO WATER LINE. NO DRAINAGE. NO TRANSPORT FACILITY. WHEN YOU KNOW THAT NOTHING HERE. DONOT BLAME NOLAMBURVILLAGE PLEASE . YOU DECIDE AND LIVE ON YOUR STYLE AND TASTE. VERY VERY THANKS FOR READING THIS COMMENT.
Funny that both this profoundly depressing situation and the super hopeful one you reported on earlier, where “The public toilet, in the town of Musiri in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, gives users as much as 12 U.S. cents a month for their excreta. Feces are composted and urine … is collected, stored in drums and used as fertilizer for bananas and other food crops in a two-year research project by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.” are both in relatively close proximity.