The Hindu 19.11.2009
Garbage continues to pile up
Staff Reporter
| Municipalities are struggling to find a proper disposal site |
— Photo: T. Singaravelou 
Awaiting solution: Garbage being removed from 45 Feet Road to be taken to a new location in Puducherry, on Wednesday.
PUDUCHERRY: Garbage piles up in Puducherry as the municipalities are struggling to find a proper disposal site. With the failure of negotiations with residents of Sedarapet-Karasur to temporarily dump waste in the area, Puducherry’s garbage disposal problem continues to trouble residents and authorities alike for a week now.
Disposal facility at Kurumbapet
“We have made arrangements for garbage to be disposed at a location today. All the garbage from the two municipalities will be collected and cleared in a day or two,” said Public Health Minister A. Namassivayam on Wednesday. “When the modern garbage disposal facility at Kurumbapet gets ready in a few months, the problem will be solved,” he said.
According to a release, officials of the Oulgaret Municipality adopted a resolution to dump all the garbage collected within the municipal areas at the Karuvadikuppam dumping yard. The Public Health Minister has also been intimated about the resolution, the release said.
Collecting trucks and dustbins have remained laden with garbage after the residents of Karuvadikuppam protested against disposal of garbage in the area. Heaps of garbage along the roadside are now a common sight. But, in some pockets of the town, waste is being cleared off the roads.
The Puducherry and Oulgaret municipalities together generate about 500 tonnes of garbage a day, according to municipal officials.
