Heaps of plastic bottles, paper cups and other rubbish litter the Collectorate campus in Tirupur.
The reason is attributed to the non-availability of adequate waste collection facilities and also the lack of civic sense or sense of belonging among the people visiting the Collectorate and the officials working in various department offices on the premises.
N. Shanmugasundaram, a consumer activist who frequently visits the Collectorate for raising civic issues, told The Hindu that it was sad to see garbage lying unattended on Collectorate premises itself, especially at a time when ‘Green and Clean Tirupur’ had been taken up by different stakeholders.
“Proper removal of garbage is not taking place. Officials of various departments also have to be blamed as after conducting frequent meetings, they are not ensuring that the water bottles, biscuit packet covers and tea cups, are disposed of properly in accordance with the solid waste management rules,” he said.
G. Logananathan, who came to the Collectorate for getting some personal work done, said he had felt the need to raise the issue of rubbish strewn on Collectorate campus, on many occasions.
“The Collectorate, being the nerve centre of the district administration, should be kept neat and clean if others have to be encouraged to follow the rules,” he added.
The activists feel that in order to ensure cleaner environment on the Collectorate campus, the authorities concerned should impose fines on people who were dumping waste material, even if officials were found responsible for doing this.
