Only when encroachments go, flooding will stop

Corporation, PWD and district administration should work in tandem to remove all encroachments

The inundation of residential colonies in low-lying areas Tiruchi due to heavy discharge in the Koraiyar this week has turned the spotlight back on encroachments of drainage channels, the city’s primary storm water drainage network apart from Kudamuritti river.

Allaying apprehensions of the possibility of yet another flood, Collector S. Sivarasu, however, conceded that unapproved layouts and encroachments on drainage canals and wetlands (nanjai lands) have led to the inundation. Retrieving the canals after the rains will be the permanent solution, he told media persons.