Dumpyard
The residents of Vellalore recently staged a protest from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. demanding the civic body should shift the dump yard out of the city. According to R. Selvaraj, president of the residents’ organisation, the civic body has not done anything and it did not send segregated waste as mandated by the Tamil Nadu [...] Continue Reading »
Vigilant Citizens Welfare Association says Tondiarpet zone, in which Kodungaiyur falls, generates only 320 tonnes of garbage a day, but 4,000 tonnes of waste from seven zones is disposed here. Though the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) marked the area for a government institute, it was turned into a dumpyard 16 years after the residential [...] Continue Reading »
