Stench stalks Kurnool residents

Kurnool

Oct. 11: Even though it is been a week since the floods receded, many areas in Kurnool are still under knee-deep slush while sanitation personnel have been unsuccessful in clearing tonnes of garbage scattered on the roads here.
People complain that the foul smell emanating from the garbage is making their heads reel.
Gases spewed by the garbage are causing irritation in the eyes too, they said.
Despite deploying 16 municipal commissioners, 2,000 sanitation staff and machinery from other cities, the Kurnool Municipal Corporation is finding it difficult to clean the garbage that is piling up on the streets everyday.
About 50,000 houses in the old city have been affected by floods.
Flood victims, while cleaning their houses, have dumped not less than two tonnes of waste per household on the roads in the past four days.
To make matters worse, the sanitation staff are dumping garbage in the city outskirts, causing the foul smell to spread to areas in new city.
Though the floods did not cause much trouble in the new city, people here are facing health problems due to the foul smell from the dumped garbage.
“We are clearing 5,000 tonnes of garbage per day,” said Mr Vikas Raj, managing director of the AP State Financial Corporation, who is supervising sanitation activities in the town.
“We have deployed 1,800 sanitation staff and another 1,480 workers are expected to join us in a couple of days. We are trying to bring normalcy in the city within a week. To expedite the work we have deployed 175 tractors, 33 JCBs and 22 dousers,” he said about the sanitation works.
The officials also had a hard time convincing workers to take up cleaning operations as they initially refused to work due to the unbearable stench. “We can’t even stay indoors as the stench from the garbage reaches everywhere. Due to the stench, we could not eat or sleep properly for the last four days,” said Mr S.Shyamsunder, a resident of Devnagar.
Source::DC