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Nearly 2 weeks aft a panchayat authoritative assured residents that the garbage dumped astatine Ambedkar Colony successful Ravikamatham mandal office of Anakapalli territory would beryllium shifted, nary enactment has been taken truthful far. The inaction has triggered protests by the affected residents connected Sunday.
Ravikamatham, with a colonisation of astir 6,000, has been facing sanitation issues arsenic household discarded is being dumped astatine Ambedkar Colony. The dumping has created terrible wellness problems for the residents and for children studying astatine the adjacent Zilla Parishad school.
Representatives of the Kula Vivaksha Porata Samithi (KVPS), Agricultural Workers Union, and Dalit Sanghams person been staging protests for the past 1 month, demanding that the garbage beryllium removed from the colony and the wellness of the residents and schoolchildren beryllium protected.
CPI(M) territory secretariat subordinate K. Govinda Rao said that connected October 7, MPDO O. Mahesh had assured residents that the garbage would beryllium cleared wrong a week. “The foul odor from the dump is making beingness unbearable and starring to the dispersed of diseases. Pigs are roaming freely successful the area, and mosquitoes are breeding successful stagnant rainwater,” helium said.
Panchayat unit claimed that the lack of a designated dumping gait had forced them to dispose of the garbage successful the area. The section leaders, who staged different protestation connected Sunday, warned that they would motorboat an agitation astatine the section secretariat if the garbage was not cleared wrong a week.
