We the Indians are notorious for living in filth, litter and gutter. The best example, as reported by the leading Tamil daily of Chennai, namely “Dinamani” on 23rd January, 2011 on the conditions prevailing in Ponneri Town, Tiruvallur District. There are 18 wards in which the population of 30000 are residing. Normally the garbage collected from the town is transported daily to the garbage depot located on the banks of river Arni for burning and disposal. There are many areas in the town where the lorry or trucker cannot enter due to the narrow streets and lanes. The municipality has arranged 3 Wheeler Cycles for transporting garbage. As usual even these Tri-cycles have become a dustbin in the midst of uncollected garbage. The people are worried and the civic authorities are unable to remove the garbage and keep the town neat and clean although the citizens are paying taxes to the Municipal administration. The people expressed concern in this regard and expected the District Collector to intervene.
Chennai City in the public eye through 'Dinamani'
ReplyDeleteThe above daily is publishing almost daily for the last one month a photo of the sanitary condition prevalent in some part of the city or other - garbage spilling over the storage bins kept at the street corners or the road cut in the middle portion for some repair or laying the pipe-line or sewage water flowing all over the road and making the area stinking and making the life miserable in the vicinity. The civic authorities seem to have lost control over these developments although the ruling class has changed both in the state Secretariat and Ripon building. Hope things should improve as promised by the new set-up as is being cried over again and again.