UNHYGIENIC DUMPING OF WASTE IN CHENNAI, CHOOLAIMEDU

UNHYGIENIC DUMPING OF WASTE IN CHENNAI, CHOOLAIMEDU

                                                                                                           
                                                                                                        Anamica Arengh.

                                                                                                            
                                                                                                        Date: 3.10.2016

Though the government has made a relentless effort to keep the city clean still there are some areas still living without proper sanitation there are no proper waste bins to throw the garbage. There are some areas in which the municipals have not even covered.

There are areas that the municipal don’t even reach to clean up as a result the locality lives in nasty places with obnoxious odours that comes out of those decomposed waste, the waste bins are not provided to those areas, as a result people find now where to dump those waste and they find out particular place to throw the garbage. Those obnoxious places are not confined only to Choolaimedu there are many other places in Chennai where which people live in an unhygienic condition.

Those inappropriate dumping of waste makes people awful to pass the road, reckless dumping not only makes the places ugly but also degrade the quality of soil and contributes towards the soil pollution as it eventually makes the soil marshy and produce foul smell.

In order to prevent those reckless dumping proper facilities should be provide to the people residing mainly in slum areas.

 This mainly occurs in slum areas where people live so congested without having a space to move around, eventually this may lead to the numerous diseases because of the lack of fresh air to breathe in.

A number of letters appear in the media particularly in the neighborhood newspapers about such conditions but I wonder whether anybody in the civic administration take note of them at all. Just like the residence, the administrative missionary also seems to have got use to such garbage scenario and the nauseating smell.

No society can call itself civilized when such conditions exceed. During rainy days, it is a common site to see roads flooding with water and drainage manholes over flowing. It is pathetic to see people living in such contaminated environment. Under such conditions it is not surprising that a contagious disease like leptospyrosis whose occurrence was not known in the city a few years has now become so common.