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Students on a clean-up mission
Staff Reporter
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Operation to make Tirupattur litter-free
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Insufficient number of dustbins, a reason behind garbage problem Lack of underground sewerage network also blamed
TIRUPATTUR: Students from all schools in Tirupattur are taking part in a campaign to clean the town. Tirupattur Sub-Division Sub-Collector Ashish Kumar has instructed schools to depute students to clean the town.
Parents of the students have extended support to the Sub-Collector’s initiative to make Tirupattur a litter-free town. The cleaning operation is being carried out for a week. The students have been cleaning not only the roadside but also public toilets.
However, some parents have complained that the Sub-Collector’s office and the Municipality had failed to provide protective gear to the students involved in the operation.
Tirupattur is among the taluk headquarters in the district where huge bulk of garbage is being thrown on the streets owing to insufficient number of dustbins in residential and commercial areas.
The lack of an underground sewerage system added up to the problem, residents alleged. Traders, particularly petty shop vendors, often threw the waste into the open drains, which restricts the flow of sewage.
Preliminary work on the Tirupattur Municipality’s underground sewerage scheme was yet to take off, the residents rued.
The civic body had deployed workers to clean the drains but it was not being carried out on a regular basis. This also increased mosquito menace.
The garbage problem was more felt during the Pongal season. Permission was given to vendors to set up shop and eateries at several places, which ended up in waste being thrown all over the town, the residents said.
As conservancy workers had gone on leave, the situation turned worse.
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