Residents seek relocation of dumping yard in Kothagudem

The residents in the 11th division of Kothagudem Municipal Corporation have demanded the corporation authorities to relocate a dumping yard set up on the banks of Murredu stream in the division.

Four years ago, a dry resource collection centre (DRCC) was set up in the area to segregate wet and dry waste to handle garbage and waste collected from 15 divisions of the corporation. A shed was built to prepare vermi-compost but it is yet to become functional.

As a result the wastage dumped



at the DRCC got accumulated causing health risks much to the chagrin of the residents. On the other hand, heaps of garbage spread over a road that connects a Vaikunta Dhamam built near the DRCC barring passage to the funeral ground.

The residents complained that performing funeral rites had become an ordeal as they had to pass through heaps of garbage. Recently a family had to perform the last rites of a deceased person on the road as they could not reach the Vaikunta Dhamam as garbage on the road blocked the way.