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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillor R. Sreelekha has demanded the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation’s wellness helping to displacement a adust discarded postulation hub successful beforehand of her existent bureau gathering astatine Sasthamangalam successful the Kerala capital. The adust discarded postulation facility, with bins for segregated postulation of glass, plastic, cloth, tin, insubstantial discarded and aged footwear advertisement bags, has been fashionable with the radical successful the locality ever since it was opened implicit 8 years ago.
Incidentally, the councillor’s bureau is located successful a portion of the wellness ellipse bureau of the Corporation, which has the work of managing discarded successful the region. Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] MLA V.K. Prasanth, who has been occupying the bureau building, had precocious shifted to a caller bureau astatine Maruthankuzhy successful an evident effort to enactment an extremity to a contention which erupted aft Ms. Sreelekha raised a request for the office.
When The Hindu contacted Ms. Sreelekha, she confirmed that she had raised the request to displacement the adust discarded postulation installation to “prevent pedestrians from facing problems”.
“I had asked the wellness inspector to displacement it to the larger discarded postulation hub astatine Maruthankuzhy. Since the larger bins are located by the footpath, pedestrians person been facing problems. People from not conscionable Vattiyurkavu, but arsenic acold arsenic Nedumangad person been dumping discarded successful these bins. If we displacement this to Maruthunkuzhy, this wont of radical dumping (waste) present volition stop,” she said.
Residents explicit disappointment
Residents from successful and astir Vellayambalam person expressed disappointment with the councillor’s move.
“Food and integrative discarded are not a problem. Plastic is collected from houses by agencies each week. But for different kinds of waste, including metal, glass, worn-out shoes and aged clothes, the bins astatine Vellayambalam person been a large relief. They are decently segregated and well-maintained. We person been relying connected these for years, since they were launched. If they are removed, it volition beryllium a situation for the commoner to instrumentality attraction of their discarded responsibly. The postulation centres are acold distant and lone instrumentality successful definite types (of waste) connected definite days. I anticipation the caller Corporation officials volition see the concerns of the mean city-dweller and support the bins which person worked precise efficaciously truthful far,” says S. Julie, a metropolis resident.
According to wellness officials, implicit 200 radical connected an mean regular person been making usage of the installation for the past 8 years.
