City Congress leaders and activists staged a protest at the dumping yard in Ajith Singh Nagar demanding that the municipal corporation authorities relocate it.
Speaking on the occasion, Congress city unit president M. Vishnu, who led the protest, said that the Congress government had released Rs. 40 crore for setting up of a modern dumping yard under the JNNURM scheme but the project got delayed due to elections and the State bifurcation. Even after two-and-a-half years now, the TDP government had failed to take up the project, he said. He said that the dumping yard was located amid residential colonies inhabited by 2 lakh families spread across four wards. Mr. Vishnu demanded that the State government, which had declared a war against mosquitoes, should remove the dumping yard before October 15 as people in the area were facing problems with mosquitoes and dogs which feed on the garbage.
