Kumari Palany & Co

Poor Waste Management – Chennai Central Railway Station

Posted on: 18/Apr/2014 11:52:04 AM

Chennai’s biggest and hectic railway station, is now been sniffed with disgusting odor.  Since the storage bins are overflowing, garbage piles up on the platforms.

The 142 year old reputed railway station is now turning abhorrent for the commuters and passersby. Each and every platform has no less than one zit where storage bins run over with the garbage.

Indigent waste Board has been the cause for this issue for many years, said Prerana Ramkumar, a recurrent traveler amid Chennai and Bangalore.

Decayed food waste is strewn on the station platforms making it awkward for travelers who land from trains in the early morning hours. The wastes pull towards flies, rodents, and crows and pretense a health peril to people who make use of the station.

People, who arrive in the station to acknowledge their friends and relatives, feel very bad about the officials who are least bother in taking up the measures to keep the platforms clean. Once after our long journey, we are forced to face this appalling condition of the platform, said Nikhil Bohra, who disembarked from Patna to Chennai on Thursday.

Public also have an evenly vital role in preserving cleanliness. Though the wipers put a lot of strive, people should stop disposing the waste wherever they want, said Baskar, a stall vendor at the station.

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