DMK MLA’s protest in Tiruppur assailing handling of garbage disposal by Corporation causes flutter

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Flagging health-hazard from mounds of garbage piled up connected the roadsides for months successful the Tiruppur Corporation limits, DMK MLA K. Selvaraj staged a sit-in protestation connected Monday adjacent Muthaiyan Temple successful Ward 55, demanding decisive enactment by the section assemblage besides governed by the ruling party.

The foul odor emanating from the garbage mound aggravated erstwhile the cleaning cognition was carried retired by Corporation workers, successful a punctual effect to the protestation by the ruling enactment MLA that caused a flutter.

A visibly miffed Mr. Selvaraj assailed the Corporation, blaming it for letting things travel to specified a walk and cautioned that helium volition support protesting astatine different garbage pile-up spots successful the lack of substantive action.

“People are complaining of respiratory problems and the concern has kept aggravating,“ helium complained, portion staying enactment for astir 2 hours astatine the determination till the completion of the cleaning process, adjacent arsenic galore stood astir wearing masks to evade the foul stench.

“I person been a accepted DMK partyman for 5 decades, and don’t spot the request to indulge successful authorities erstwhile it comes to highlighting people’s problems,” helium said.

Later successful the day, the Corporation said successful a property merchandise that the Garbage Vulnerable Points on roadsides and unfastened plots wherever wastes person been accumulating for agelong were being identified for carrying retired cleaning operations connected a war-footing.

Such locations were being fenced with greenish nets, to forestall littering successful future. The locations volition beryllium decorated with rangolis and angiosperm plants and trees, the property merchandise said.

The locations volition beryllium nether changeless monitoring, and placards volition beryllium placed to forestall littering, Corporation Commissioner M.P. Amith said, appealing to the nationalist to guarantee segregation astatine source, and desist from littering astatine the points. Those flouting norms volition look stringent enactment nether Public Health Regulations, the Commissioner warned.

Published - January 05, 2026 07:40 p.m. IST

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