trichy the slow pace of underground drainage ugd pipeline installation for over two years now has been denying safe and proper access for residents of kk nagar in ward 64 of trichy corporation in fact bad roads inadequate street lights and irregular waste collection have been troubling the wards residents mostly senior citizens who looked up to the elected council to resolve their grievancesfalling under zone iv kurinji nagar on udayanpatti main road first saw streets dug for underground drainage under phase iii of ugd project for trichy city in march 2020 the residents were told that the inconvenience will last only a year now after more than two years installation of drainage chambers and sewers remains incomplete in kurinji nagar residents allege that their roads were not inspected in the recent past to validate the progress of the ugd what is more depressing for them is that precast cement concrete manholes and chambers have been left abandoned on vacant plots in nehruji street and brindavan street in the ward with snakes taking shelter in them while some of the streets have main ugd chambers installed that would serve as junction points to collect sewage from multiple houses on the same street individual connections to the houses are yet to be given citing the incomplete work proper roads were denied to around 16 streets in kurinji nagar most of the residents are senior citizens the bad and uneven roads are taking a toll on our health as many of us have undergone surgeries b balaji a retired railway employee said though trichy corporation has completed ugd pipeline installation in certain areas within 12 hours through dawntodusk construction work such progress remains a distant dream for kurinji nagar there are around 500 families in the locality but street lights are either inadequate or dimly lit waste collection is also irregular say residents municipal administration minister has instructed to identify wards where the progress of ugd work is slow we will inspect kurinji nagar streets and identify the lapses a senior official with trichy corporation said