Children’s park in Rajapalayam turned into garbage dumping spot

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Poor upkeep has rendered P.S. Kumarasamy Raja parkland  successful  ward 22 of Rajapalayam municipality  useless for children.

Poor upkeep has rendered P.S. Kumarasamy Raja parkland successful ward 22 of Rajapalayam municipality useless for children. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

P.S. Kumarasamy Raja Greenery Park successful Rajapalayam town, that utilized to beryllium the astir sought-after destination for children and adults for playing and greeting stroll, is successful a authorities of ruin. Thanks to the lackadaisical cognition of the officials of Rajapalayam municipality.

“The parkland would beryllium teeming with a batch of children and their mothers each evening arsenic the spacious spot had a fewer play instrumentality similar swings, see-saw and merry-go-round,” said a section resident, S. Saravanan.

The artificial fountain was an further attraction.

The pavement astir the parkland was utilized by the men and women, including elders, for their regular greeting walk.

The parkland that was established nether the Amrut Scheme successful 2015-16 successful Ward 22 was renovated 2 years back.

However, each the infrastructure and the tax-payers wealth spent to support it has been rendered useless aft the municipal authorities allowed their cleanliness workers to parkland the garbage collecting vehicles wrong the park.

“After the workers started to parkland the garbage vehicles, dilatory they started to dump bags of garbage wrong the park,” complained Mr. Saravanan.

As the parkland was filled with foul odour, gradually the children avoided it. So did the adults.

The circular vessel that houses the artificial fountain has stopped working. “However, the vessel has turned into a breeding crushed for mosquitoes and lakhs of larvae were recovered successful it posing information to the wellness of the radical surviving successful the vicinity,” helium added.

With predominant plying of garbage vehicles, adjacent the pavements are successful a damaged condition. Besides, it has go a den for consuming liquor aft the dusk.

Local councillor N. Rohini said that the parkland was utilized by children connected Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

However, erstwhile immoderate civilian works for toilet was carried out, it was near unfastened and section radical started to usage it for parking vehicles.

The cleanliness workers person stacked up integrative discarded segregated from garbage wrong the park, the councillor said.

Mr. Saravanan wondered however could the Rajapalayam municipality,which is simply a pioneer successful postulation of taxes, could crook a unsighted oculus successful attraction of an important infrastructure.

“Greenery is lone successful the sanction of the parkland and it was not maintained. Even a immense histrion that fell down fewer days backmost was yet to beryllium removed from its premises,” helium added.

Rajapalayam Municipal Commissioner S. Nagarajan said that each efforts would beryllium taken to bring backmost the parkland to its archetypal condition. The garbage vehicles would beryllium taken out. Some civilian works successful helium country was pending which volition assistance for amended attraction of the park, helium said.

Published - October 26, 2025 07:26 p.m. IST

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