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Industrial Waste Dumped in Village, Public Health Concerns Raised
August 18, 2007 at 1:28 PM
Environmental Health
With monsoon rains fast approaching, the villagers are worried about a possible health crisis when the waste is washed into water sources and their homes.
For the past four months trucks have been arriving in a remote hamlet called Ingur, in the western part of Tamil Nadu, stealthily in the night and dump in the open bags after bags of solid waste.
Reports say that they are all gathered as waste from processing industries in nearby SIPCOT industrial complex managed by the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) Limited, a fully government owned undertaking.
All along the Ingur-Perundurai Railway Station Road one can easily spot bags of solid waste thrown every few feet. Over a period of time, the bags shrink and dry up and the waste is scattered all round.
Ingur panchayat president E. V. M. Nataraja Murthy laments, “Twice or thrice every month for the past few months, vehicles from processing industries from SIPCOT dump their waste here.”
They have converted our village into a vast dumping yard, and without our knowledge and consent, he notes.
And worse could follow when monsoon sets in. The waste could get washed into water sources and even their homes, making life miserable for the Ingur residents.
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