Madurai readers mail

Sanitation woes

Commissioner, Madurai Corporation, is requested to look into a superior nationalist wellness interest astatine Sathamangalam, Anna Nagar, adjacent Cine Mini Theatres. A garbage gait and unfastened dumping spots situation the Primary Health Centre successful the bosom of the area. Several hospitals and schools prevarication wrong a 200-foot radius.

Although the Corporation has installed 5 dustbins here, they are being utilized arsenic imperishable retention points for garbage brought from different parts of the city; unfastened urination and defecation are besides reported. The 60-foot roadworthy has been reduced to a 20-foot transition owed to the garbage accumulation, causing dense postulation congestion. Due to specified unhygienic conditions, it becomes a breeding crushed for mosquitoes and attracts stray dogs and cows.

I impulse the Corporation to wide the dumping site, region and relocate the waste, equine regular sanitation drives, forestall unfastened defecation and carnal encroachments and reconstruct the roadworthy to its archetypal width to easiness traffic. 

S. Kanagarajan,

Anna Nagar

Civic responsibility

It is disheartening to enactment caller reports describing Madurai arsenic 1 of the dirtiest cities successful the country. As residents, it is our work to alteration this. Madurai radical indispensable cooperate with the Corporation successful due discarded disposal. The civic authorities, successful coordination with concern associations, NGOs, and NSS volunteers from schools and colleges, could organise fortnightly clean-up drives successful antithetic areas to guarantee sustained cleanliness. Instituting awards for the cleanest portion whitethorn besides promote nationalist participation. Let america each enactment unneurotic to reconstruct Madurai’s representation arsenic a cleanable and arrogant city.

A. Martin David,

West Ponnagaram, 6th street

Peacock protection

Peacocks are ethereally beauteous creatures that tin inactive beryllium seen successful ample numbers betwixt Oomachikulam and Yanaimalai adjacent Othakadai. Sadly, of late, they look the hazard of extinction owed to accelerated urbanisation and alleged amerciable hunting.

To guarantee their endurance and sphere the earthy habitat, the Yanaimalai portion and the Idayapatti elevation country adjacent Thiruvadavur whitethorn beryllium declared arsenic Peacock Sanctuaries. Such a measurement would spell a agelong mode successful protecting these birds and maintaining ecological equilibrium successful the region.

B.B.C. Chandrasekar,

Arumbanur Pudhur