Laundry workers on Monday submitted a petition to the Collector seeking water supply connections in their locality.
During the weekly grievance redressal meeting at the Collectorate, functionaries of Tirunelveli laundry labourers association, including vice-president E. Raj and secretary V. Mani, submitted a petition seeking water supply connections to Arockiyanathapuram in the 17th ward of the Corporation.
They said that 106 free site pattas were given to laundry workers by the Department of BC, MBC and Minority Welfare. Most of them had constructed houses at the sites.
However, water was being supplied using trucks once a week in the absence of house service connections. Further, the authorities refused to set up water supply pipelines in the area. However, residential areas nearby were given water supply connections, they said.
Residents of Adidravidar Colony in Thirumalapuram panchayat said the streetlights in the area had not been functioning over the last three months. When the problem was raised during the gram sabha meeting on June 28, they said the problem would be fixed. But, it was yet to be fixed, they added.
Members of an association for the visually-impaired expressed apprehensions that their travel using bus passes, which was now free of cost across the district, would be restricted after the creation of a new Tenkasi district. So, they demanded that the visually-impaired be given free bus passes for the TNSTC division comprising the districts of Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Tenkasi and Kanniyakumari.
Residents of Thippanampatti village panchayat in Keezhapavur panchayat union demanded the construction of a bridge on the north side of their village to transport people at times of medical emergency to the hospital. They said that people had to get down into a channel to get to the hospital.