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Councillors belonging to the Communist Party of India raising slogans after staging a walkout from Tirupur Municipal Council on Tuesday. – TIRUPUR: Communist Party of India councillors on Tuesday made a scathing attack on the district administration for its failure to clear the knit-wear town of garbage. They said no development works had taken place in the last one year. CPI leader in the council P.R. Natarajan said that the citizen were subjected to various health hazards because of the accumulation garbage at various parts of the town, stagnation of drainage and rainwater and breeding of mosquitoes. He said that it has become impossible to travel on roads as most of them were full of potholes. The administration was neglecting people’s grievances. Most of the streetlights had not been working even after the cancellation of private contract. Mr. Natarajan said the administration was not taking efforts to provide basic amenities to unapproved layouts despite they paying development charges. The residents have lost faith in the administration, he said. He condemned the administration’s move to rope in in Self-help groups to do the cleaning job in another 13 wards. He termed it a worst form of exploitation of poor Dalit sanitary workers. He said the SHGs themselves did not carry out the cleaning job but engaged sanitary workers on daily wages. Mr. Natarajan wanted the municipality to appoint adequate number of sanitary workers. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam councillor S. Murugasamy wanted the administration to increase the wages to sanitary workers. “In a business town like Tirupur, paying a daily wage of Rs. 80 was insufficient,” he said. Municipal Chairman K. Selvaraj said that he had taken up the matter with the District Collector. C. Sivasamy (AIADMK) said that his party would launch an agitation if the sanitary condition of the town was not improved in a fortnight. G. Eswaramurthy (CPI-M) opposed the privatisation of conservancy work through Self-help groups. CPI(M) councillors staged a walkout in protest against the move. They asked the administration to carryout road repair works immediately. Municipal Commissioner M. Ashokan said sanitary work, especially collecting garbage from houses and cleaning the streets had been entrusted to SHGs in 19 of the 52 wards because of shortage of workers. Resolutions were passed to privatise the work in another 13 wards. Once the Government approves the proposal to appoint 300 more sanitary workers, the contracts would be cancelled, he said. Refuting the charges of official apathy in executing development works, Mr. Ashokan said Rs.22.75 crore was spend last year towards various development works in the town.
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