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
in heaps:Garbage being dumped on the entrance of the Foot Over Bridge near the Puducherry bus stand.— Photo: S.S. Kumar
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.