Waste management nil near Sivagangai GH as waste dumping and burning persist

Patients and doctors at the Sivagangai Government Medical College Hospital are facing severe hardships due to the rampant dumping and burning of municipal waste near the premises.

Across the 27 wards of the Sivagangai municipality, an average of 13.08 tonnes of garbage is generated daily.

Originally, this waste was disposed of at the Sundaranappu municipal garbage yard, but operations were halted following stiff opposition from local residents.

Although thousands of tonnes of waste accumulated at the site were subsequently cleared using the bio-mining method, alternative management strategies failed to take shape.

The municipal administration attempted to establish resource recovery parks at three separate locations—the Manamadurai Road South Crematorium, Kalavasal, and Marudupandiyar Nagar—to segregate waste locally.

However, due to administrative lapses and subsequent protests from residents in those neighbourhoods, dumping at these recovery parks was also suspended.