Utility services in vellore

Electricity supply to Vellore is regulated and distributed by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB). 
The city and its suburbs forms the Vellore Electricity Distribution Circle. A chief distribution    engineer is stationed at the regional headquarters.
     
Water supply is provided by the Vellore municipal corporation from the Palar river through Palar headworks and Karungamputhur headworks and distributed through ten overhead tanks. As of 2005, there were 16,371 connections against 33,772 households. In 2000–2001, a total of 7.4 million litres of water was supplied daily for households in the city. 
        The other sources of water are Otteri Lake, Sathuvancheri town panchayat, Ponnai and stree bore wells.

As per the municipal data for 2011, about 83 metric tonnes of solid waste were collected from Vellore every day by door-to-door collection. The source segregation and dumping was carried out by the sanitary department of the Vellore municipal corporation. The municipal corporation covered 16 wards for waste collection as of 2001.
     There is no underground drainage system and the sewerage system for disposal of sullage is through septic tanks, open drains and public conveniences.The municipal corporation maintained 145 km (90 mi) of storm water drains in 2011. As of 2011, 24 government and private hospitals and one veterinary hospital take care of the health care needs of the citizens.\ As of 2011, the municipal corporation maintained 5,241 street lamps: 735 sodium lamps, 73 mercury vapour lamps, 4,432 tube lights and one high mast beam lamp. 
    The municipal corporation operates the Nethaji Daily Market that caters to the needs of the city and the rural areas around it.