Several areas in city to get water supply on alternate days
Restrictions in view of a block in the radial arm of collector well at Periyar Nagar; it is expected to take two months to complete the repair work
A flying squad on Sunday seized cash of ₹2.72 lakh from a woman at Manachanallur on the outskirts of the city.
According to sources, the flying squad consisting of revenue and police personnel were checking vehicles at Manachanallur, which comes under the Perambalur constituency, when they found ₹2.72 lakh from a woman passenger in a car. The woman could not produce proper documents to support cash being carried beyond the permitted limit. Following this, the officials seized the cash.
Officials said that further enquiry was on. It would be deposited in the nearby treasury office pending enquiry. Eightynine flying squads and 89 static surveillance squads had been formed to check the flow of
The flying squad checking a mini goods carrier at Karumandapam on Tiruchi-Dindigul highway in Tiruchi on Sunday.
money and transportation of gifts purportedly for inducing voters. They would be on duty round the clock.
Gifts seized
A flying squad seized 71 boxes containing pressure cookers, ‘dosai tavas’, and lamps among others in Alathur taluk in the district in the early hours of Sunday.
The squad headed by Alathur Taluk Supply Officer was checking vehicles
near Adakampatti check post in Perambalur (reserved) Assembly constituency when it stopped a mini freight carrier bound for Sendurai from Erode.
The squad found the items inside the boxes which were being transported without any proper documents. The value of the seized items was put at ₹74,550.
They were handed over to the office of the Perambalur Sub Collector, an official release said.
Drinking water will be supplied on alternate days in the following areas of the city due to a block in the radial arm at the collector well at Periyar Nagar.
As it would take two months to complete the repair work, the quantum of drinking water supplied to some parts of Tiruchi city has been reduced.
Hence, drinking water will be supplied on alternate days to the 35 overhead water tanks in the following areas. Ariyamangalam, Malaiyappa Nagar, Rail Nagar, Defence Colony, Ponneripuram, Mela Kalkandarkottai, Vivekananda Nagar, Kela Kalkandarkottai, Ambedkar Nagar, Devadhanam, Viragupettai, Mahalakshmi Nagar, Sangiliandapuram, Kallukuzhi, Ariyamangalam Ukkadai, Jaganathapuram, South Ukkadai, Thiruverumbur, Valluvar Nagar, Old Ellakudi, Alathur, Cauvery Nagar, Pari Nagar, Santhosh Nagar, and Ganesh Nagar.
In addition, the 32 overhead water tanks in the following areas getting supply from Ponmalaipatti and Subramani Nagar groundlevel reservoirs will get water supply on alternate days: Central Prison, Sundar Rajan Nagar, J.K. Nagar,
Sembattu, Khajamalai, E.B. Colony, Old Khajamalai, Ranga Nagar, Subramania Nagar, V.N. Nagar, Thendral Nagar, Kavibharathi Nagar, Kamaraj Nagar, Crawford, Anbu Nagar, Edamalaipattipudur, Panjapur, Amman Nagar, E.B. Colony, Ponmalaipatti, Aishwarya Nagar, LIC Colony New, Viswanathapuram, K. Sathanur, Anand Nagar, Sathyavani Nagar, K.K. Nagar and Subramania Nagar.
Corporation Commissioner V. Saravanan, in a press release, appealed to the public to cooperate with the civic body and use water judiciously until the temporary shortage of drinking water is rectified.