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Corporation-Panchayat locked in garbage dumping row

— Photo:M. Balaji

MESSY SPOT: The site of garbage dumping that has put the Veerapandi Panchayat on a collision course with the Tirupur Corporation.

TIRUPUR: The Tirupur Corporation and the Veerapandi Panchayat on the former’s border are locked in a tussle over the dumping of garbage from the Corporation areas on a site in the panchayat.

Led by the panchayat, the residents of Veerapandi have staged a road blockade; the local body has passed a resolution and even sought the intervention of Lok Sabha member from Coimbatore, K. Subbarayan, to bring about a solution.

The issue has shades of the matter involving Coimbatore Corporation’s compost yard at Vellalore and the protest by residents in the outskirts against the dumping of garbage there. But, the difference is that the three-acre dumping site at Veerapandi is a private land and very much part of the panchayat, says its president A. Govindaraj.

“There are a number of residential colonies around the site. The dumping poses health hazards to the people and it is the panchayat’s responsibility to ensure sanitation in its limits,” says Mr. Govindaraj. Hence, the elected representatives in the panchayat have led a protest over the Corporation’s approach.

“We even stopped the garbage-laden lorries of the Corporation from entering the site on July 18,” the panchayat president says. “Will the Corporation allow us to dump garbage in its area? What has upset us more is that the Corporation continues to dump garbage in our area after promising not to do so.”

Mr. Govindaraj says he has called upon the Corporation to elicit the views of the people living near the site on the dumping of waste. “We also said that it could not ignore the opposition from the people.”

The panchayat had also passed a resolution that appealed to the Corporation to stop using the site as a garbage dump. While doing so, it pointed at the diseases threat the garbage dumps posed to the people.

The panchayat had also made an appeal to the District Collector to direct the Corporation to stop dumping garbage on the site.

Head of the Corporation’s engineering wing K. Gouthaman said the private land was being used as a garbage yard only as a temporary measure. There was no space within the Corporation limits to dispose of garbage. So, the civic body had obtained permission from the land owner to use the site.

The Corporation was working on acquiring a site at Kiduvai to establish a permanent disposal facility as part of its solid waste management programme. “Once the land at Kiduvai is available, the dumping of garbage in Veerapandi will be stopped,” the official said.

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