Residents take matter into hands, pump out water

Since it was Sunday and many of the residents were at home, they held a meeting, where they decided to wait no further for official action to solve their problem. Through the help of the associations under the Mudichur Resident Welfare Associations Joint Forum, resources were pooled, and workers were engaged. 

What spurred the residents to act was the fear of mosquito breeding, caused by water stagnation, which they had faced for the past few days. The sanitation aspect, compounded by fear of vector-borne disease outbreak, forced the residents to pump out the water to the nearest drainage channel.