Sujatha — waste disposal issues

Address:	600071
Website:	www.consumercomplaints.in/new_complaint/a

I would like to bring to your notice that for the past few months, precisely after the waste management contract in Avadi changed, there is not a single bin in the locality to drop the garbage. It has become very rare that we see people from the municipality, collecting garbage across the streets too.

Around the streets of Kamaraj Nagar and the neighboring areas like Kumaran Nagar, Avadi Housing board, Lazar Nagar, etc., there is no proper garbage disposal facility. Being a resident in Kamaraj Nagar, I had to desperately go around carrying the garbage tub in my two-wheeler, to see if there is any dustbin around the area to drop it.

After a point some people are forced to drop it on the streets and when asked the simple answer they give is that there isn’t a dustbin in the locality.

The workers from the municipality who come around to collect the garbage, make it at random timings. People who work in 9 to 5 jobs cannot wait until 10 AM for the workers to arrive, dispose of the garbage and then leave.
Working people living in a flat, cannot leave their dustbins in the parking lot for the garbage collectors to pick it up as the dogs on the street drag them to a mess. The rainy season is up and the roads of Avadi are beautifully laid, that they do not let the rainwater drain.

Before a couple of months when the contract was in different hands, there were dustbins in and around the area, but they were not sturdy. Rainwater and dumping garbage into the bins break them within very few days.

This, in turn, causes garbage to pile up all the way to the roads. People walking on the road have no other choice than landing on the dirty water. We need sturdy dustbins all throughout the area and the action needs to be taken IMMEDIATELY before this becomes an intolerable menace.

The town was notified as a municipal corporation “considering the increase in population, growth in annual income and the level of the civic services to be provided towards the fulfillment of the basic needs of the growing population of Avadi..” a notification stated. If there isn’t a response from the authorities for this simple need of the people, then I wonder what all this commotion is about.