Lakhs of garbage still around the city

Goutham Prasad

Junks of home appliances, mattresses, and damaged by the floods are part of garbage littering the cities on roads. Lakhs of tones of garbage lies across the city, the amount that  the metropolis generates daily is less. Most of the workers have cleared only in few areas of garbage in 1 week. 

The corporation employees still working only in affected areas but still in these areas the people are dumping the garbage and few of the employees have health issues said by dinesh.

About minimum 10,000 workers, and tipper Lorries, including those brought in from other districts, are toiling on the streets even as more are expected to join the operation in few days.

In fact several workers live in slums along river the side. "Many of them are unable to report to work," said a civic official. The civic body has asked private firm which collects garbage from the sadipet, jafferkhanpet, Teynampet, Kodambakkam and Adyar zone, to deploy additional workers for the huge task.

Clearing the additional garbage washed on to the streets from flooded houses is the bigger problem. "Streets are filled with garbage’s like eatable items, mattresses, pillows and nothing has been cleared yet. Even few volunteers from various places also cleared up the waste or garbage materials and have put bleaching powder too. 

People don't know what to do with them either," said by Jafferkhanpet resident  jayan.  Residents of some of the worst-affected areas like Velachery, and Kotturpuram do not know what to do with household goods and they have dumped them on the streets and few at main roads either.