Garbage piles up in Tiruppur: land identified for solid waste disposal at Nerupperichal in district, says Minister

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About 25 acres of onshore has been identified astatine Nerupperichal successful Tiruppur territory for coagulated discarded management, wherever garbage from the metropolis was being taken to, Minister M.P. Saminathan said successful the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly connected Thursday.

Machinery was being procured to segregate the garbage collected from Tiruppur metropolis and by the 2nd week of February, the piled up garbage would beryllium removed effectively, the Minister said, responding to concerns raised by Tiruppur North MLA K.N. Vijeyakumar.

Referring to a lawsuit pending successful the Madras High Court, the Minister said the judgement was expected soon. The Tiruppur Corporation was taking efforts on with the territory medication to find a determination to determination the coagulated discarded collected successful the city, helium said.

Earlier, responding to Mr. Vijeyakumar, Minister K.N. Nehru said determination was absorption successful Tiruppur territory for moving coagulated discarded adjacent to authorities poromboke lands. The authorities was consenting to take a determination adjacent if it was astir 15 km from the city. If onshore was available, the authorities was consenting to acceptable up waste-to-energy works successful Tiruppur.

Raising the contented successful the House, Mr. Vijeyakumar said determination were 60 wards successful Tiruppur Corporation that cod astir 650 tonnes of garbage regular and garbage was piling implicit the past 40 days. He urged the State authorities for steps to region garbage.

Published - January 22, 2026 09:37 p.m. IST

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