“Just Dump It In A 1,200-Ft Rocky Pit, Won’t Affect Groundwater Because It’s All Rock”: TVK MLA Navalpattu Viji’s Garbage Disposal ‘Solution’

“Just Dump It In A 1,200-Ft Rocky Pit, Won’t Affect Groundwater Because It’s All Rock”: TVK MLA Navalpattu Viji’s Garbage Disposal ‘Solution’

A proposal by TVK MLA Navalpattu Viji to dump garbage from the Ariyamangalam dump yard into a 1,200-foot-deep rocky pit has drawn criticism and raised environmental concerns, after the legislator claimed the waste would not affect groundwater or cause environmental harm. Speaking to the press, Navalpattu Viji criticised decades of political inaction over the long-standing garbage crisis at the Ariyamangalam dump yard in Tiruchirappalli, while al…