Tirunelveli District Collector inspects ‘pollution points’ of Thamirabarani; severe action to be taken against polluters

As the unabated contamination of the Thamirabarani stream continues with the devotees taking bath successful the stream discarding tonnes of aged apparel and section bodies continuing to discharge sewage into the perennial stream supplying drinking h2o to respective millions of colonisation successful 4 confederate districts, District Collector Anand Mohan visited immoderate of the ‘major contamination points’ connected Saturday to recognize the gravity of this issue.

Since, devotees visiting Sri Papanasa Swami Temple astatine Papanasam discard their apparel successful the Thamirabarani aft taking bath successful the river, the spot wherever the stream enters the plains from the Western Ghats, the h2o is earnestly polluted. Moreover, much than 25 lodges, astir 30 eateries and hotels successful Papanasam inactive discharge their sewage into the stream ignoring the warnings from District Collectors connected respective occasions.

“Polluting the stream with wilful discharge of sewage is simply a punishable offence nether The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1974 on with the provisions of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. However, nary authoritative successful Tirunelveli territory has the courageousness to invoke this proviso against those who pollute the Thamirabarani. If a fewer polluters are arrested and punished by the Court, this occupation volition travel to an end,” suggests advocator Muthuraman.

Since Mr. Anand Mohan, portion assuming bureau precocious made it wide that intensive and sustained measures would beryllium enactment successful spot to prevention the Thamirabarani with the practice of each stakeholders, helium visited the stream flowing adjacent Papanasa Swami Temple, the archetypal contamination point, connected Saturday. He besides inquired with the officials astir the sewage flowing into the stream from the lodges, eateries and the hotels successful Papanasam and different places truthful arsenic to initiate contiguous ineligible enactment against these commercialized establishments.

The Collector, aft inspecting a fewer much contamination points wherever the Thamirabarani gets polluted by the sewage flowing from the hamlets on the watercourse and owed to the callous cognition of Vickramasingapuram and Ambasamudram municipalities and a fewer municipality panchayats, visited Karuppanthurai, C.N. Village, Manimurtheeswaram, Vannarpet and Arugankulam, each falling nether the Tirunelveli Corporation, wherever the stream is earnestly polluted by sewage arsenic enactment connected the 2nd and 3rd phases of underground drainage works are inactive dragging.

“A wide program of action, which volition besides spell retired the ineligible enactment to beryllium initiated against the polluters of Thamirabarani, is to beryllium tabled successful the gathering to beryllium chaired by the Collector apt during adjacent week. The gathering is apt to acceptable deadlines for the section bodies, including Tirunelveli Corporation, for implementing credible infrastructure similar underground drainage strategy to avert the stream pollution. So, action-packed months tin beryllium expected,” said a elder gross official.