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Lalur residents pin their hopes on panel meeting

Thrissur: The residents of Lalur, who have been waiting for a solution to the garbage disposal problems in the area, are pinning their hopes on a meeting called by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, scheduled on July 4.

Following a representation submitted by the Lalur Malineekarana Virudha Samara Samithi, the Chief Minister has decided to hold a meeting of the high power committee on the Lalur Model Project for Solid Waste Management (LAMPS).

This is the second time that the Chief Minister's office is intervening in the decades' old waste management problem of the Thrissur Corporation.

About 400 families in Lalur, the City Corporation's garbage dumping yard, are at their wit's end.

They complain that their agitations, satyagrahas, discussions and negotiations to find solutions to the garbage-induced health, sanitary and environmental problems have not yielded results.

The situation didn't change even after the intervention of the former Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan on the issue. On May 14, 2010, the LDF government issued an order to implement the LAMPS, a project for decentralised management of waste generated under the Corporation limit.

The project, however, failed to take off owing to various reasons.

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