By G Saravanan
Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on April 30, 2011:
Chennai,: More than 1,450 families living in the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board tenements at Nochikuppam near Marina Beach, are facing a risk of a serious health hazard. The civic machinery has, for reasons best known to them, not cleared the garbage from inside the colony, which comes under the Chennai Corporation Ward No.145, for months. The situation has become grim for the residents in the past few days as stagnant rainwater has turned the heap of garbage into a happy breeding ground for mosquitoes.
“My four-year-old son fell sick with high fever few days ago and the doctor who diagnosed him advised us to use mosquito nets after coming to know about the situation inside the colony,” Kamala, a resident of the colony told Express.
The other residents too complained about a sudden spurt in mosquitoes in the locality and demanded the civic body to act immediately to save locals from diseases. Numerous pleas by the residents to Neel Metal Fanalca, the private company involved in garbage removal operations in parts of the city, and the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board to remove the heaps of garbage largely went unheeded for months. Finally, Mayor M Subramanian came to their rescue three months ago when he promised swift action during a weekly live public interaction on civic issues on a private television channel. “The next day, after the Mayor promised action on TV, staff belonging to the Neel metal and TNSCB landed here and cleared the heaps of garbage from every part of the colony,” said Ambal, another resident of the colony.
That was one ‘massive drive’ that cleaned up the colony and put a smile on every resident’s face. But that was it. After that day, nobody turned up at the colony for conservancy works for the past three months and people living there plan to once again send out an appeal to the Mayor to rescue them from Malaria and other diseases. P Gopal, who lives very close to the spot where mounds of garbage remain dumped, told Express that the residents were contemplating a similar move.
When contacted, Uma Sasavi, the local councillor, said that she would take up the issue with the NMF and also ask Mayor Subramanian to conduct another massive drive. When NMF was informed about the uncleared garbage inside Nochikuppam TNSCB tenements, officials of the private agency assured immediate action.
Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on April 30, 2011:
Chennai,: More than 1,450 families living in the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board tenements at Nochikuppam near Marina Beach, are facing a risk of a serious health hazard. The civic machinery has, for reasons best known to them, not cleared the garbage from inside the colony, which comes under the Chennai Corporation Ward No.145, for months. The situation has become grim for the residents in the past few days as stagnant rainwater has turned the heap of garbage into a happy breeding ground for mosquitoes.
“My four-year-old son fell sick with high fever few days ago and the doctor who diagnosed him advised us to use mosquito nets after coming to know about the situation inside the colony,” Kamala, a resident of the colony told Express.
The other residents too complained about a sudden spurt in mosquitoes in the locality and demanded the civic body to act immediately to save locals from diseases. Numerous pleas by the residents to Neel Metal Fanalca, the private company involved in garbage removal operations in parts of the city, and the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board to remove the heaps of garbage largely went unheeded for months. Finally, Mayor M Subramanian came to their rescue three months ago when he promised swift action during a weekly live public interaction on civic issues on a private television channel. “The next day, after the Mayor promised action on TV, staff belonging to the Neel metal and TNSCB landed here and cleared the heaps of garbage from every part of the colony,” said Ambal, another resident of the colony.
That was one ‘massive drive’ that cleaned up the colony and put a smile on every resident’s face. But that was it. After that day, nobody turned up at the colony for conservancy works for the past three months and people living there plan to once again send out an appeal to the Mayor to rescue them from Malaria and other diseases. P Gopal, who lives very close to the spot where mounds of garbage remain dumped, told Express that the residents were contemplating a similar move.
When contacted, Uma Sasavi, the local councillor, said that she would take up the issue with the NMF and also ask Mayor Subramanian to conduct another massive drive. When NMF was informed about the uncleared garbage inside Nochikuppam TNSCB tenements, officials of the private agency assured immediate action.
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