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The Federation of North Chennai Residents Welfare Associations (FNCRWA) connected Thursday submitted a petition to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, urging the authorities to retreat the projected waste-to-energy (WtE) incineration task astatine Kodungaiyur dump yard.
The FNCRWA president T.K. Shanmugam said the Chief Minister had assured them that a committee would beryllium formed to reappraisal the contented successful the beingness of the Chief Secretary. “The Vada Chennai Valarchi Thittam was brought successful by this government. So, improvement towards improving livelihoods nether this strategy successful the Kodungaiyur dump gait indispensable beryllium considered,” helium added.
According to the petition, the residents sought the cancellation of the WtE plant, which proposes to pain 2,100 tonnes of discarded daily, citing superior wellness and biology risks specified arsenic aerial contamination and toxic metallic emissions.
The petition, besides signed by CPI(M) State Secretary P. Shanmugam and the Federation of Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front, added that residents had agelong suffered from diseases caused by the existing dump gait and the task would worsen the situation.
Instead, an alternate ‘Green Chennai Initiative’ was proposed. This would process discarded done composting, recycling and reuse without burning oregon large-scale dumping, according to the RWA.
The petition besides called for the installation of an biology parkland and a nationalist room connected the onshore reclaimed done bio-mining astatine the dump yard, and the constitution of a abstracted biology argumentation for North Chennai.
