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Under Ground Drainage connection , Tiruppur

Reported on October 10, 2010 from Tiruppur , Tamil Nadu  ι Report #30331

Tiruppur Municipality, now Tiruppur corporation is proposed to give Under Ground Drainage system (UGD) for Tiruppur to keep the city clean and free from mosquitoes. I accept it is the useful plan.
They collected Deposit amount instalment , from 650 for Houses, and 1500 for Commercial Buildings for every six months. They also collected Supervision fees, connection fees,
Now, some people, saying that they are coming from Municipal office, collected very unreasonable amount towards connecting our building drainage pipes to street UGD pipe system. for just 2 feet pve pipe connection they collect 3500 rupees. When we complainted it to the concerned officials , they threatened us to pay the fee, or ready to face future risk, including building approval, pipe disconnection on fake complaints.
So we paid the amount to them. They even charged from 10,000 to 75,000 thousand for laying PVC pipe connection, which length will be between from 10 feets to 100 feets. If we do this work with our own workers, it will be just 2000 to 15,000 only. If anybody asked about this, some raid contacted against them, on fake complaints, or on some rules.
When a Lawyer named, Mr.Manivannan want the details about this through Right of Information act, Municipalaity sent the reply that, no persons were sent by the municipality to do the work, public should be cautious about the persons.
But still the persons are collecting the amount from public, saying that they are giving the amount to all top officials, and politicians. We have no other way than to pay the amount.
Tiruppur has 32 wards. Every ward has minimum 2000 UGD connections. If 32 x 2000 = 64000 connections.
Say, for the minimum amount collected from each house is minimum 3500, the real expenses will be 750 only. Balance amount 2750 x 6400 connections = 17,60,00,000. 50% of building owners paid minimum 20,000 for the connection.
You can ask every people about it.

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