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Former Minister and Kinathukadavu MLA (AIADMK) S. Dhamodharan submitted a petition to the Coimbatore District Collector connected Saturday (December 6, 2025) regarding the projected canine shelters astatine the Vellalore dumpyard premises.
In his petition, Mr. Dhamodharan highlighted that residents up to 10 km from the dumpyard are affected by the foul odour emanating from the site. Legacy discarded astatine the dumpyard has caused groundwater successful adjacent unfastened and borewells wrong a 2 km radius to crook yellow, rendering it unfit for use.
The erstwhile Minister expressed interest that gathering canine shelters and expanding the existing Animal Birth Control Centre astatine the dumpyard would further disturb the section colonisation owed to sound from the animals and imaginable hygiene issues.
He besides cited a 2018 ruling by the National Green Tribunal, which prohibited dumping caller discarded astatine the tract and ordered the removal of existing discarded utilizing bio-mining methods. The ruling besides banned immoderate caller operation successful the area.
In airy of this, the petition urged the Collector to instrumentality indispensable enactment to retreat the connection and forestall further hardship for the section community.
