The Hindu 07.08.2012
Thrissur getting bogged down in mounds of garbage
Road near Sakthan Nagar turns into a dumping yard
Though the Thrissur Corporation managed to enter into a contract with a private agency for garbage disposal, the city’s sanitation condition has not improved a bit.The Salem-based company, which removed two loads of waste for one day has not turned up after that. The rotten waste collected from various parts of the city has been heaped on Pattalam Road, located in the heart of the city, for the past one week.
The entire road near Sakthan Nagar has turned into a huge dumping yard. People have started avoiding the arterial road because of the unbearable stench emanating from it.To make matters worse, people have begun to dispose of household waste onto the streets as the corporation has started collecting garbage from various points.
The corporation sources said that the company was not able to remove the garbage owing to shortage of workers. According to the tender conditions, the company would remove 400 tonnes of waste in a week at a rate of Rs. 2,700 per tonne. Those who oppose the contract allege that the company failed to fulfil the conditions in the first week itself.
In the past one week it removed only 51 tonnes of garbage, they said. The CPI(M) councillors have been opposing the tender since the beginning alleging lack of transparency in the tender procedures. They alleged that it would destabilise the corporation’s efforts to decentralise garbage treatment.
Meanwhile, the Sarvodhaya Mandalam demanded the corporation to employ the Salem company to remove the accumulated garbage from the Lalur dumping yard along with the city garbage.
