The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Residents wonder if it is a road or garbage dumping yard

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Monday, Sep 04, 2006

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Residents wonder if it is a road or garbage dumping yard

K. Lakshmi

A stretch of MTH Road between Avadi and Pattabiram is an eyesore

CHENNAI: A stretch of MTH Road between Avadi and Pattabiram has been converted into a virtual dumping yard, much to the inconvenience of road-users.

Motorists plying on the road have to bear with stench wafting from the garbage dumped along the corner of the road for at least one km. The space between the road and the railway track is used to dump garbage including animal carcasses, say residents.

Motorists say they are faced with an accident risk on the road littered with scattered papers and plastic materials.

The residents of Avadi complain that about 10 loads of garbage collected from various areas of the municipality have been dumped daily on the roadside for the past one month.

Members of the Thandurai Pattabiram Consumer Council say the garbage collected from the neighbouring areas and dumped on Second Street, Chatram at Pattabiram is not disposed of daily, thus causing health hazard to the residents.

The residents complain that private operators entrusted with the job of garbage disposal have found it easy to pile up garbage in several areas and clear it only after several days. Though the municipality has a dumping yard at Sekkadu, the problem of irregular garbage disposal and dumping in neighbouring areas persists, they say.

everal representations have been made to the municipal authorities, but the issue is yet to be resolved, the residents allege.

Responding to the complaints, municipal officials say the work on compost yard at Sekkadu is underway.

Avadi generates about 60 tonnes of garbage daily.

The garbage being dumped on the MTH Road is being cleared and action will be taken against those, who dump garbage in the place. The other areas where garbage disposal is irregular will be checked and steps will be taken for dumping garbage only at Sekkadu, the officials say.

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