Kodungaiyur
Chennai- The city’s dumping yards- Perungudi and Kodungaiyur- filled with smoke, stench, pollution, illness, dislocation and protest have become a view of distress. The Chennai Corporation is in the final stage of finding a way out to its problem of garbage accumulation. People residing in localities in the vicinity of dumping yards forced the civic [...] Continue Reading »
Implementation of waste management projects will be mandatory for residential apartments in Chennai. The Chennai Corporation is working on a proposal for compulsory source segregation of waste material at large residential apartments in the city. If the residential complexes do not initiate these projects, they will be fined, as per a senior corporation official. The [...] Continue Reading »
Protests are high in Kodungaiyur against Chennai Corporation over a dumping ground. The residents urge the corporation to shift the yard to another place as it poses health hazard to whoever residing around. They have also decided to make a human chain near the dumping place to initiate a protest. Around nineteen residents welfare associations, [...] 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 »
