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Ministers' intervention sought

Staff Reporter

To solve pollution caused by sewage farm

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The district administration would request a meeting of the Ministers of Revenue, Irrigation and Local Administration departments to discuss the pollution caused by the city's sewage farm at Muttathara and to discuss the plight of the people living around the farm.

This was decided at a meeting chaired by Thiruvananthapuram West MLA V. Surendran Pillai at the Collectorate on Tuesday night. District Collector N. Ayyappan said at the meeting that the involvement of the Ministers is necessary to coordinate the activities of many departments that are involved in the running of the sewage farm and in the maintenance of the canals that crisscross the area.

Officials of the sewerage division of the Kerala Water Authority (KWA), the minor irrigation department and those from the dairy development department who took part in the meeting shrugged off responsibility for maintaining the farm in proper condition.

Officials of the dairy development department pointed out that the farm was built to process about eight million litres of water daily. Now, the daily inflow into the farm is in excess of 150 million litres. This has led to a complete breakdown of the filtering system inside the farm, they said.

People living in Muttathara, Beemappaly and Cheriyathura who participated in the meeting said different departments were so busy blaming each other that they had no time to solve the problems of the people.

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