Villagers seek Collector’s intervention to check dumping of waste in waterbody

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Farmers of Kaanarpatti, who submitted a petition to the Tirunelveli Collector connected  Monday, seeking colony  of harvest  security  claim.

Farmers of Kaanarpatti, who submitted a petition to the Tirunelveli Collector connected Monday, seeking colony of harvest security claim. | Photo Credit: A. SHAIKMOHIDEEN

Seeking District Collector R. Sukumar’s contiguous involution to halt the uncontrolled dumping of discarded allegedly by the Gopalasamudram municipality panchayat successful the waterbody adjacent their village, a radical of residents from Indra Colony adjacent Koththankulam submitted petition connected Monday.

The petitioners said they were utilizing the h2o from Kalvettaankulam adjacent their hamlet for drinking intent and irrigation for respective decades too for sustaining their cattle. However, the dumping of discarded successful the waterbody allegedly by the Gopalasamudram municipality panchayat regular had polluted the irrigation tank. The discarded being dumped successful the adust areas of the waterbody was being burnt, which was again polluting the environment.

“Since we cannot usage this polluted h2o for drinking, irrigation, and maintaining the cattle, we submitted a petition to the officials to halt the dumping of discarded successful the irrigation tank. However, enactment was not taken. Encouraged by the inaction, aesculapian discarded and the chickenhearted wastes are besides being dumped successful the tank. While we cannot usage the water, the toxic fume from the burning discarded is causing wellness issues to the villagers. Hence, the Collector should instruct the officials acrophobic to halt this signifier and region the discarded heaped successful Kalvettaankulam,” said the petitioners.

Insurance claim

A radical of farmers from Kaanaarpatti submitted a petition seeking the aboriginal disbursal of security benefits for the achromatic gram nonaccomplishment they suffered past twelvemonth owed to mediocre rainfall. The petitioners, led by territory caput of Tamil Nadu All Farmers’ Associations Coordination Committee D. Abraham, said farmers, who had raised achromatic gram successful Maanur country past year, had suffered immense nonaccomplishment owed to mediocre rainfall. Even though they had paid the security premium earlier the deadline arsenic stipulated by the company, the security benefits for harvest nonaccomplishment was yet to beryllium disbursed.

Hence, the Collector should instruct the security steadfast to instantly settee the security benefits to insurers, the petitioners said.

Another radical of villagers from Kaanaarpatti submitted a petition appealing to the Collector to amended drinking h2o proviso to their hamlet. “Since we are getting drinking h2o erstwhile successful 15 days, the Collector should instruct the Maanur panchayat national officials to instrumentality steps to augment the drinking h2o supply,” the petitioner villagers said.

Published - September 22, 2025 09:09 p.m. IST

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