Residents of Old Kesare in Mysuru city on Monday staged a protest against the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) for dumping solid waste collected from the city in the locality. The move has led to unhygienic conditions besides spreading bad smell in the locality, they claim.
Strongly opposing the MCC’s move, the residents said the MCC did not consult the residents of the locality when it decided to dump solid wastes in its land set aside for processing the waste.
The MCC also shifted the slaughterhouse that was originally proposed at R.S. Naidu Nagar to Old Kesare. The project remains incomplete as the residents oppose the facility. The projects that are opposed in other localities are brought to old Kesare without eliciting the opinion of the local residents, the residents stated in a statement here.
The MCC conveniently relocates such projects from R.S. Naidu Nagar to Old Kesare. “Are we not humans,” the residents asked.
They charged that the MCC was spoiling the health conditions of the people in Old Kesare by shifting waste that was dumped earlier at Sewage Farm in Vidyaranyapuram, and demanded that the MCC must stop waste dumping in Old Kesare.
