A cesspool of neglect: Municipal workers clearing the sewage overflowing from a drain on M.G. Road in Puducherry on Monday. | Photo Credit: S_S_KUMAR more-in People passing by the Rangapillai Street and Vellalar Street on Mahatma Gandhi Road on Monday morning had to navigate stinking spillage from a storm water drain. The drain breached near a prominent food outlet putting road users to hardship. It took municipal authorities several hours to clear the muck. Four months ago, the drain started leaking and the authorities issued notice to the hoteliers against dumping waste and letting waste water into the drain. Violation of rules “The town has proper sewer line and instead of allowing sewage into the line, the hoteliers were letting it into the storm water drain. Even some residents are releasing the sewage into storm-water drain,” said a municipal staff. The hoteliers, particularly those running make-shift biryani outlets, dump food waste into the drains. They dump plastic items used to serve food to customers. “We will be serving notice to these hoteliers again. If they repeat the mistake, their licence will be cancelled,” he said. After road users and residents complained to MLA R. Siva about the Monday morning leak, he alerted the Municipal staff.

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