Chennai: Residents and activists have lost a count of Crores Rupee State Government and Greater Chennai Corporation ‘spent’ to restore Marshland Palikarani.
At least 13,000 crors have continued the challenges of inheritance waste in the past three decades, but benefits, if any, are not visible.
In 1980, when the area was the ancient city of Panchayat, the government stuck 75 hectares for solid waste management.
The corporation in 2011 added 325 other hectares for TPA.
Now, it has around 3.63 million cubic meters of legacy waste lying in 125 hectares.
200 remaining hectares are used for waste processing and daily waste disposal.
About 2,000 tons of wet waste is thrown there every day.
There are a number of Judicial commands, the announcement of government policies and requests from the housing welfare association on the disposal of solid waste that indiscriminately in Pallikarani Marshland, and dumpdui dumpudi, which is an extension of the swamp.
But in vain.
Dumping and burning of garbage in a landfill cause air pollution, especially in the summer, and polluted ground water in Sai Nagar and Balaji Nagar in Perungudi because Lindi entered the land entering the ground.
“In September 2002, more than 1,000 residents of Velachery, Taramani, Madipakkam, Puzhuthivakkam and Ullagaram formed a human chain followed by Satyagraha one day against dumping solid waste by the municipality.
When about 32 months of untreated waste was thrown into Marshland, they erupted the protest again .
About 20 years therefore, the area is under corporations and contracts worth more than? 13,000 crores have been given to private companies for waste management.
But the basic problem of dumping waste waste / illegal and unthinkable households in Pallikarani Marshland continues, “Kumaraja said, an organizer of Palikarannai Marshland rescue.
“Every year, the Civic’s body claims it will cleanse the inheritance waste using bio-mining, regulate the waste management plant and apply solid waste separation.
But it has not been done until now,” Vimala, another constitution of Save Palikaranai Marshland, said.
C n Process, Chief Chief Chief Engineer (Solid Waste Management) said composting facilities were established.
The construction and disassembly waste plant is being arranged and will immediately function, it claims.
Noting that the bio-mining contract was given in February 2021, just a few weeks before the election, he said that in the next three years, at least 125 hectares would be converted into green fillings.
“Dry waste is being sold to a cement plant.
But they only want certain items such as paper, non-contaminated plastic and recyclers require non-contaminated metals and glass.
For this reason we ensure the separation of waste in the source by creating awareness.” V Srinivasan , a civil activist, saying changing desert into wetlands must be done within the deadline.
“It’s not just a civil body.
The waste produced by the apartment complex, IT companies, colleges and shopping complexes ends at Marshland at night,” he said.