Garbage piling up in hosur: Madras High Court warns officials of possible action
Chennai: The Madras high court has said if any defects are pointed out by means of videograph or photograph by the residents of the Tamil Nadu Housing Board Phase VII, New ASTC HUDCO, Hosur, with regard to improper maintenance of the compost yard, the officers will be liable to pay costs and face prosecution in accordance with law.
Justice S.Vaidyanathan disposed of a petition from Anil Kumar, which sought a direction to the Hosur Muncipality, not to construct any building for the process of putting up of manure yard in the area of public residence situated at TN Housing Board Phase VIII, Hosur.
The judge also disposed of the petitions from Janakar and Anil Kumar Pillai, which sought a direction to the Municipality to clear the garbage dumped in that area.
The judge said the contention that the compost yard should be removed and taken to some other place cannot be accepted in the facts and circumstances of the case. However, at the best, the petitioners can do so without preventing the compost yard being constructed in a portion of the park and they should ensure that the area was litter free zone and regular fogging operations and other measures were being taken care of by the Municipality. If there was no activity for a day on account of any other reason, there was possibility of infectious and contagious diseases being spread, the judge added.
The judge said though the relief sought for by the petitioners cannot be granted, when the compost yard comes, the authorities shall ensure that it was cleaned twice a day and fogging the zone was also done, more particularly during sunset to avoid mosquito breed. That apart, the residents in the area shall also cooperate in keeping with the wastage in different forms, namely degradable and bio-degradable forms of segregation of waste.
Though this court would suggest that the corporation/municipality concerned shall provide degradable wastage disposal bags to each and every house, as there was possibility of scam in that process, this court was avoiding such observation. The authorities must also aware that the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Public Health Act were not only applicable to the residents, but also applicable to the Municipal authorities, the judge added.
