EK Guru Street in Periamet: Whereratshave a discipline day

Going by the variety of rats lolling round at EK Guru Street in Periamet, one would need the Chief Mouser from 10 Downing out right here. People of this residential space positioned close to the Periamet mosque and Madras Veterinary Hospital are tormented by quite a lot of points, all of them inter-related.

It all began round a yr in the past when the cement highway was dug up for an infrastructure work, which resulted in injury to a few of the pipelines. The drainage line and stormwater drain community having suffered injury most homes get water combined with sewage.

The highway has not been relaid, and the gaps within the manhole cowl are an invite to a colony of rats. The rodents transfer freely on the highway by way of the day, the state of affairs worsening at night time.

M. Shoukat Ali, a resident of the realm for over 20 years, says his household doesn’t draw water from the borewell fearing contamination and are depending on tanker lorries. “So excessive is the rat infestation that we can not open our door; if we do, they only sneak in. My air conditioner and washer wires had been broken by these rodents,” says Shoukat.

He says there are greater than 30 households dwelling within the space and so they have made many complaints to each the businesses chargeable for fixing the problem – Greater Chennai Corporation and CMWSSB.

“Officials have visited the realm however we have now not bought a everlasting answer,” says Shoukat. He says the blocks within the drainage line should be cleared extra scientifically. The highway additionally must the relaid.

EK Guru Street comes underneath Ward 58 of Zone V of GCC.