The Hindu 19.02.2015
Puducherry municipality to restrict dumping of garbage
Asks residents to hand it over to conservancy workers who visit the area
The Puducherry Municipality has asked the residents to avoid throwing or dumping the garbage on streets recklessly.
He advised them to hand over the garbage to the conservancy workers who visit their area every day.
The municipal authorities have found it difficult to control the residents from throwing and dumping garbage on the streets especially after the daily conservancy works are completed.
In Puducherry Municipality, conservancy workers clear garbage piled dustbins in 42 wards twice a day. But still, some residents continue to throw the garbage on roads after the visit of conservancy workers in their respective area.
Municipality, Commissioner R. Chandrasekaran told The Hindu , “We are clearing the garbage from the streets twice a day in 42 wards and disposing the collected garbage at the dumping yard in Kurumbapet. After the conservancy workers complete their jobs, residents, tend to throw the garbage on the streets wherever they wish. The garbage thus causes pollution and health hazards .”
The commissioner said apart from personally monitoring the situation, there are sanitary supervisors to keep a watch on the street hygiene every day.
The officials said that the conservancy workers visit Nehru Street at 8.a.m and 9.30 a.m. Most of shops and commercial establishment open after that and throw garbage on the road caring little for the environment.
In other areas, the residents who live in apartments just throw down the garbage from whichever floor they are in.
The municipal commissioner advised the residents to keep the garbage inside their premises until the conservancy workers took it away.
