No conscience? People are very unhappy with the corporation administration; ‘Vellalur garbage bomb’ explodes again. Unable to bear the stench emanating from the Vellalur garbage dump, people in the surrounding area are having severe shortness of breath; they are suffering from skin diseases. The groundwater has been affected and has turned yellow. The corporation officials are indifferent to the plight of the people. Tons of waste are being dumped in the Vellalur garbage dump every day, affecting the environment. Surrounding areas including Konavaikkalpalayam, Kaduthuruthy Sheri, Indira Nagar, Sriram Nagar, Gandhi Nagar, Arul Murugan Nagar, Mahalingapuram, Kanchikonampalayam, Kambar Veedi have become uninhabitable places.
For the past few days, the stench emanating from the garbage dump is unbearable; it blows over a distance of two km to Sundarapuram and Echanari; people are suffering. Make it possible!
Regarding this issue, Kurichi-Vellalur Joint Pollution Control Committee Secretary Mohan has written a letter to the Pollution Control Board officer. In it, ‘The people living in Chettipalayam Road, Vellalur, Pothanur, and Sundarapuram areas have been facing severe hardship due to the stench emanating from the Vellalur garbage dump. They have requested that the residents of this area be provided with a hygienic living environment.’
‘I will go in person’
When asked by Corporation Commissioner Sivaguru Prabhakaran, ”There has been no stench coming from the Vellalur garbage dump for so many days; it has come to light that it is coming now. We need to investigate why the stench is coming. I will go to the dump in person and inspect it and find a solution,” he said.
‘We are writing a letter…’
When asked by District Environmental Engineer Chandrasekhar, ”The Corporation should not dump garbage in Vellalur. But garbage is being dumped. “The stench is more because it is winter. We are going to write a letter to the corporation after conducting a field survey from the Pollution Control Board. If we spray the medicine, we can control the stench to some extent. The stench is more due to the change in season,” he said.
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