CHENNAI: A new street has been put close to the NIOT intersection on Thorappakkam-Pallavaram Radial Road to assist dump garbage from the Pallikaranai marshland, nature fans and residents living near the fragile water body whine.
Approximately 50 metres of street has been set and earthmovers are gradually pushing garbage with this stretch to the marsh, ” they stated.
TOI photographer L R Shankar caught the placing of the street across the northern aspect of this marsh.
Activist S Kumararaja, a resident of Velachery, alleged about 10 acres of this marshland was caught for’Growing’ Thorappakkam-Pallavaram Radial Road and the new street is set to turn the region into a ditch yard.
“After the new trash collection bureau was created, the government maintained it could segregate and ditch just degradable waste from the Pallikaranai marsh.
However, no segregation is occurring and crap collected from families is blended and chucked from the marshland.
The amount of waste dumping hasn’t come as promised by the authorities,” he charged.
In any case, at least three stray dogs had been burned and their carcasses dropped from the marshland near the NIOT intersection, Kumararaja stated.
Sources from the woods department said that they hadn’t received complaints regarding dumping of garbage as well as burnt stray puppy carcasses in the region.
But a staff will go to the region on Monday and actions will be initiated from the violators if evidence of this offence is located, said an official.
Dumping carcasses of creatures may further induce the water quality and consequently has an effect on the fauna and flora at the marshland that’s already reeling under the effects of untreated sewage being discharged, stated naturalists.
Animal welfare activists said they hadn’t got any complaints of burnt carcasses of dogs being chucked at the marshland.
Naturalists say the government need to scrutinize the marshland, a safe place, to put a stop to the breach.