TENKASI: Residents of Panayankurichi of Idaikal Panchayat demanded the State government to hold talks with the Kerala government to stop illegal transportation of e-waste, vehicle wastes, and plastic wastes to Tamil Nadu.
On Saturday, several televisions, used two-wheelers, induction stoves and plastic wastes were burnt in a farmland. The waste disposed in the open included liquor bottles. Speaking to TNIE, the villagers said, "Discarded bottles and plastic wastes had Malayalam letters printed on them. The two-wheelers also had 'KL' registration. The dumping of waste has been going for many years in Tirunelveli's Panayankurichi and Tenkasi's Puthupatti. The State government should conduct a talk with its counterpart to bring this issue to an end."
Meanwhile, Idaikal panchayat administration wrote to Tirunelveli Collector V Vishnu regarding the same. Vice president of the panchayat S Dharmaraj, told TNIE, "There is a private nursery school and a silkworm rearing unit near the farm field where the Kerala wastes are being burnt.
The nursery school children are facing breathing difficulties because of this." He insisted strict monitoring at check posts in Tenkasi and Kanniyakumari districts to avoid entry of wastes into Tamil Nadu.
Activists observed that the transportation of wastes from Kerala to Tamil Nadu via Tenkasi and Kanniyakumari districts are in the rising trend. Last month, a truck from Kerala unloaded meat waste in an open place in Thankkarkulam near Radhapuram.
