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The once-scenic Kovalam formation successful Chengalpattu territory is hardly a spot wherever household tin walk prime time. The sands are littered with filth, plastic, dried fish, weed arsenic good arsenic plants and discarded washed ashore during the caller rain. This is successful stark opposition to the adjacent formation that has got the planetary Blue Flag certification for the 5th year.
Swami, a visitant to the beach, said that portion entering the broadside marked arsenic ‘Kovalam Weekend View Point’, ample stretches of soil were riddled with integrative discarded and solid bottles.
“Garbage similar integrative bags were seen adjacent successful the waves, making it uneasy to measurement adjacent to the water. Waste items bearing governmental enactment symbols were besides noticed. We could not beryllium connected the soil adjacent to the oversea arsenic garbage was strewn each over,” helium said.
According to locals, the discarded surfaced earlier successful December pursuing dense rain, but has not been cleared by the conservancy unit of the section panchayat.
A lifeguard moving astatine a backstage edifice nearby, said the portions adjacent the edifice and the Blue Flag certified agelong were cleaned regularly, portion the different broadside was perpetually neglected.
A nonmigratory of Kovalam said that erstwhile respective parts of the colony itself were not cleared of discarded connected a regular basis, 1 could not expect the formation to beryllium cleaned by sanitary workers.
When the contented was raised with the territory administration, Chengalpattu Collector D. Sneha said, “Solid discarded absorption works are regularly attended to by the section body. The contented pointed retired volition beryllium looked into.”
