Chennai: The Tamil Nadu pollution control board has directed Tambaram Corporation to pay 21 lakh as compensation for opposing the National Green Tribunal order at the disposal of effective solid waste.
For more than 11 years, waste was collected from housing units and commercial complexes in and around Thireunermalai discharged adjacent to the edge of the Adyar river.
According to official data, Thireunermalai, with a population of 40,000 people, the average produces around nine tons of waste every day.
From this, only a ton of recycled waste properly, and two other tons used to make dirt.
The rest is removed near the body of water.
Because this site posed public health hazards, the regional residents in 2016 approached the Southern Zone NGT, which directed the authority not to dispose of waste there and cleared the accumulation of waste by adopting the scientific method.
The city of Thireunermalai Panchayat roam the private company Allwin Dumblegation to biomine accumulation (or heritage) waste.
Biomining is the process of converting the dump yard material to a resource that can be reused using bio-organisms.
The state government of the state four years ago oversee 78 lakh to clean 8,600 cubic meters of waste was thrown away in Thireunermalai.
But Anna University, who studied the area in 2020, said the local body had not yet cleared 58% of inheritance waste.
The local body claims it speeds up the processing process of waste and build compound walls, cement floors to prevent seepage or leachate into the ground and mix with the river.
Against this background, NGT was set March 2021 as the deadline for completing biomining.
TNPCB, which checked the site in September 2021, found a process incomplete.
The city of Panchayat waste waste on the back of the site, said the report was submitted before the court by the council.
So, it is recommended 21 lakh as compensation for causing damage to the environment through ineffective waste disposal.
The Tambaram Corporation, which now includes the town of Thireunermalai Panchayat, must pay the amount before the next hearing regarding the case on February 24.