‘Black attire’ protest against flawed Solid Waste Management causes cancellation of Grama Sabha meeting at Mudhalipalayam for fourth time

The Grama Sabha Meeting astatine Mudhalipalayam, arsenic portion of Republic Day celebrations, was cancelled for the 4th clip successful a enactment connected Monday, arsenic a ample conception of participants came to the venue successful achromatic attires, decrying the “failure of the section body” to instrumentality Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, and the hold successful declaration of the colony arsenic Contaminated Zone.

Last month, the villagers had submitted a petition to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board complaining of “inaction” by the Block Development Officer to their demands for root segregation of discarded by households, door-to-door postulation of segregated waste, instauration of consciousness programs for the public, and technological processing and disposal of waste.

Since nary enactment had been taken arsenic yet connected those dumping the wastes openly successful vacant lands and quarry areas, causing superior biology pollution, the villagers expressed their dissent by wearing achromatic attires, starring to eventual cancellation of the Grama Sabha meeting, the villagers said.