Coimbatore, Dec. 1
In a major development in the tussle between the members of the Residents Welfare Societies and resident owners of the Parsn Sesh Nestle campus, near Nanjundapuram here, some of the residents have sought the intervention of the State Government and asked for an enquiry.
Around 615 residential units are in the campus with more than 2000 inhabitants. They have submitted a petition to the Chief Secretary, District Collector and Commissioner of Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation(CCMC), whose offices are directly involved in the previous enquiries relating to the tug of war.
According to the residents, the tussle has been pending for long ever since an issue over scheme road inside the campus broke out. Since then, some of the residents were always at logger heads with the society members, who maintained the campus.
Complaints like not allowing general public to use the scheme road, not maintaining street lights or water connection properly and even not allowing a rig to a resident’s house for sinking a bore well kept pouring out of the campus.
Various enquiries were also made by officials from both the District administration and CCMC regarding these complaints. A few complaints were also given to the Police on some issues, but the tussle never seemed to stop.
In a fresh turn of events, the petition by the residents has claimed many issues that are yet to be addressed. “Most of the houses do not have an individual drinking water pipeline provided by CCMC. Water is let into a pooling system from where the houses get water. If a resident is not in good terms with the welfare society, then he may not get drinking water,” a petitioner alleged.
Another petitioner claimed that not just drinking water, other basic amenities like allotment of house maids would also be stopped by the welfare society in such cases. “We are forced to pay a fee or Rs. 1000 a month as maintenance charge for our own houses and the quality of service is very biased,” one of the petitioners claimed.
They have submitted that because of such actions by the society members, the residents are not at peace and have pleaded for an immediate intervention by the State Government.