The Hindu 17.11.2009
Deadlock continues over location of garbage dumping site
Staff Reporter
PUDUCHERRY: Deadlock continues over the identification of a proper garbage dumping site as negotiations with the local people of Sedarapet failed.
“The government has suggested that garbage be dumped on a temporary basis in vacant lands in the Sedarapet-Karasur area, until the modern garbage disposal facility proposed at Kurumbapet is completed. The local people had earlier raised objections to this,” said Franklin Laltinkhuma, sub-collector, Villianur. “Police officials, municipality officials and officials from the Local Administration Department had convened a meeting with the locals on Monday in order to convince them, but negotiations failed,” he said.
The problem of the lack of a proper garbage disposal site came to the limelight when the people of Karuvadikuppam in Oulgaret Municipality protested against the heaps of garbage that had piled up in the area. Following the agitations, garbage continued to accumulate in garbage collecting trucks and tractors, as municipality officials struggled to find a proper location to dump the garbage.
The government has already identified a 22-acre site in Kurumbapet under the Integrated Solid Waste Management Project, for the development of a modern garbage disposal facility. A sum of Rs. 49.66 crore has been sanctioned by the Union Government under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), for the development of the facility. This money will be utilised for the purchase of vehicles to collect and dispose the garbage. The garbage dump will be equipped with modern facilities, to reprocess organic and inorganic wastes.
