COIMBATORE: Denizens will enjoy a better quality of life within four to five years as the city corporation would have completed some of its major projects by that time, outgoing city corporation commissioner K Vijayakarthikeyan said here on Monday. The 2011 batch IAS officer, who was the 23rd commissioner of the civic body , had took charge in November 2014. He has been posted as director of Tamil Nadu Institute of Urban Studies in Coimbatore.Tirupur sub-collector Sravan Kumar Jatavath will replace him.“Four to five years down the line, both the underground drainage (UGD) project and water supply scheme would be implemented in every nook and cranny of the city, spurring development,” Vijayakarthikeyan said.While the 24/7 water supply project is being implemented in 60 wards, water supply scheme under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme is being implemented in the remaining 40 wards of added areas. Similarly, UGD project under JNNURM scheme is being executed in 60 wards and the project under AMRUT scheme is implemented in the added areas.When he took charge, the UGD project was only half-way through and the city had no water schemes, Vijayakarthikeyan said. “One of the biggest challenges in implementing a project in an urban region is that it takes a lot of time because of the wide area.”“Thanks to the city corporation’s lake restoration project under the smart city mission, the city will be in a better shape when all the lakes are rejuvenated and beautified. The plan to decentralise solid waste management is now a reality and a few years later, the crisis at Vellalore dump yard will end. Encroachments in the lakes including Valankulam, Periyakulam and Raja vaikal water channel have been removed and the encroachers were relocated to the houses built by the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board,” he added.

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