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What is worse than a vital needn’t being met? That want being met in a way one didn’t discount for. Here is an illustration from Thoraipakkam.

Resident Balu N is integral to a bunch of eight residents from Balamurugan Garden in Thoraipakkam that’s reportedly tasked with turning the wheels of officialdom. For the previous few months, this process has been extra assiduous than ever earlier than. And they’re plugging away at this process with better spirit than ever earlier than, for 2 causes. One, they will benefit from the full advantages of three primary providers, long-awaited and now in sight. And extra importantly, they’re doing the official wheel-turning extra intensely to verify a horrifying facet impact ensuing from processes to create infrastructure to ship these providers, is arrested.

The facilities in query are: consuming water provide and sewage drain community by CMWSSB; and provision of a stormwater drain community by GCC.

Balu observes that CMWSSB began laying pipelines for consuming water in February 2025, and this undertaking was joined by two others the subsequent month, in March 2025, when GCC began developing stormwater drains and CMWSSD, underground drainage system.

As a consequence, the roads in Balamurugan Garden as additionally Customs Colony and adjoining neighbourhoods resemble a take a look at observe.

Balu factors out GCC can relay the roads solely after NOC is obtained from managers of every of the three tasks. The CMWSSB consuming water undertaking obtained accomplished, he says.

The different two tasks being mired in challenges regarding the house stretch, the NOCs for them are nowhere in sight.

“We have learnt that on account of GCC’s stormwater drain work, CMWSSB’s sewage connections to some residences obtained broken. Restoring them will take some doing,” says Balu, including that as for the stormwater drains themselves, the silt catch pits are but to be constructed.

And so, unhealthy highway situations are anticipated to proceed.

And this worries not simply residents, even occasional passers-by.

Anitha S, a resident of TVH Svasti positioned in a neighbourhood of Thoriapakkam that’s untouched by this subject, was stunned on the state of those roads when she occurred to go by them en path to a vacation spot elsewhere. And she introduced the difficulty to The Hindu Downtown’s consideration.