The central legal point established is that the authorities are obligated to consider the petitioner's requirement for sewerage connection based on public need and the petitioner's willingness to bear the costs and furnish security.

1. The Proprietor of Meenakshi Hospital, Thanjavur, viz. Dr. S.Gurushankar is before this Court with the above Writ Petition for a direction to the respondents to connect the sewerage water drain from Meenakshi Hospital, Nilagiri Village to the underground drainage system of Thanjavur Municipality on the basis of his representation dated 22.06.2013.

2. According to the petitioner, because of the demand from large sections of people of Thanjavur Town and neighboring areas, requesting him to establish a hospital with multi-speciality Life Saving facilities, inasmuch as there is no such multi-speciality Hospital within a radius of 120 kms from Thanjavur, he ventured to establish the said hospital in public interest in a small Town like Thanjavur. Even though Thanjavur and surrounding areas are thickly populated, for best health care facilities, people had to rush to either Pondicherry on the northern side or Trichy on the southern side to get treatment due to lack of health care facilities in Thanjavur. The sole driving force and intention for the petitioner is to establish a Hospital in public interest in a smaller town like Thanjavur and not in a bigger city like Madras or Coimbatore. Recently, the petitioner has completed construction and started operations of the said Hospital at Thanjavur, which has been designed to provide world-class health care to the people of Thanjavur at an affordable cost.

3. Some of the special features of Meenakshi Hospital are :

First Hospital in Thanjavur to have Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery Department.

First Hospital confirming to NABH standards in Thanjavur

First IT enabled hospital in Thanjavur.

First Hospital in Thanjavur with Laminar flow activated Operation Theatres

First zero-infection OT complex in Thanjavur.

Largest laboratory infrastructure in Thanjavur

State-of-the-art Blood Bank

Largest imaging facility in Thanjavur with CT Scan & MRI

Most reliable and largest Intensive Care facility in Thanjavur.

24/7 critical care facility

DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY:

First Flat Panel fixed Cathlab in Thanjavur

State-of-the art Cardiac ICU

First facility for interventional cardiology in Thanjavur

Renowned Interventional Cardiologists

Only facility to perform Coronary Angioplasty in Thanjavur. Before the functioning of this Hospital, if someone in Thanjavur had a heart attack and needed treatment by Angioplasty, the nearest centre was in Trichy which is one hour twenty minutes by road. By this time, the patient with heart-attack would lose his life. Now these Life Saving facilities are available at "Meenakshi Hospital" in Thanjavur itself and hence several lives of people are saved by the Hospital everyday.

Trained Cardiac Technicians and Nurses.

DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY:

First Cardiothoracic unit in Thanjavur

State-of-the-art CTS ICU

Experienced Cardiac Thoracic Surgeons and Surgical Team

Well-trained Cardiothoracic technicians and nurses.

DEPARTMENT OF NEPHROLOGY :

State-of-the-art Dialysis Centre

Only centre in Thanjavur to have 10 Dialysis Units.

Only centre in Tamil Nadu to perform Dialysis at a very low cost of Rs.600/-

Experienced Nephrologists and Technicians

DEPARTMENT OF ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY:

State-of-the-art Trauma care facility

Only hospital in Thanjavur to provide comprehensive trauma care with departments like Accident and Emergency, Neuro Surgery, Orthopedics, General Surgery, Urology, Gastroentology – all under one roof.

'Golden Hour' care unavailable.

Hi-tech ambulances.

Exclusive triage facility.

4. Though the Hospital is situated within the jurisdiction of Nilagiri Village Panchayat, the limits of Thanjavur Municipality begin within a distance of 1500 M from the hospital. Therefore, the petitioner submitted a representation on 15.03.2012 to the President, Nilagiri Panchayat, requesting that the hospital premises be connected with the underground drainage system in that area. The Nilagiri Panchyat had also passed a Resolution dated 09.04.2012 deciding to recomme