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The Federation of North Chennai Residents Welfare Associations connected Thursday met with Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and sought authorities involution successful shelving the task to acceptable up a waste-to-energy works successful Kodungaiyur.
T.K. Shanmugham, president of the federation, said the task had been projected successful an country wherever the colonisation was dense.
“The authorities should conception a room aft biomining the bequest waste. The chemic contamination successful the country has affected nationalist health. Many industries person polluted the area. The residents person requested the civic bureau to follow a Green Chennai Initiative alternatively of the waste-to-energy project, which volition further pollute the area. We person submitted a 32-page study astir the Green Chennai Initiative to research an alternate to the waste-to-energy plant,” helium said.
Public wellness risk
Work connected biomining of the Kodungaiyur dump gait has already started to region bequest discarded dispersed implicit 252 acres. “If the task to person discarded to vigor is implemented successful Kodungaiyur aft the biomining is completed, nationalist wellness hazard volition summation successful the area,” Mr. Shanmugham said.
CPI(M) Tamil Nadu caput P. Shanmugham urged the authorities to represent a committee to survey the feasibility of implementing alternate proposals to the waste-to-energy project.
Mr. Stalin told them the authorities would surely survey the feasibility of implementing alternate projects projected by the residents. Councillors from northbound Chennai were besides contiguous during the meeting.
