After being hit by severe delays, works on laying the new sewer line along Maharaja’s Lane at Anayara is expected to resume this week, according to the Water Resources department. The residents, while welcoming the news, said they will be relieved only when the works are finally over and their right to move freely is restored in full.
The narrow street leading off from the Pettah-Anayara road to the national highway was in the news recently after a mechanical glitch delayed the works and scores of houses were literally cut off by waist-high sections of pipes dumped outside their gates.
The contractor hired by the sewerage division of the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) to lay the underground pipeline was forced to halt the works after the horizontal directional drill, used for installing the underground pipeline, developed a snag.
