Udupi: Shirva Main Streets are Stinking with Effluents; Authorities Unconcerned

By Pundalika Marate
Bellevision Media Network

Udupi, 29 Dec 2012: Shirva village is significant among other villages in Udupi district.  It is renowned in spheres such as education, culture, religious, economic progress besides communal harmony.  It has education institutions from kindergarten, English and Kannada medium schools, higher education institutions including technical colleges. 

 

However, in this prosperous village, its irony that Shirva’s main streets are stinking owing to effluents flowing in open drains.  The shopkeepers and the customers had to do business with covering their noses due to unbearable stench. The vegetable venders’ who pitch their tents and dispose off rotten vegetables/fruits in the vicinity is also responsible for polluting the environment.  It has been a health hazard owing to mosquitoes breeding on effluent.  It’s the testimony for the apathy of district administration in addressing the key issue of public grievances on cleanliness and hygiene.

 

 
It’s a pity that the local politicians who had to take the issue with district administration are busy with petty politics.  Despite the written public grievances were presented to Udupi Tahsildar, health officer, district medical officer; no actions were taken so far.

 
The handbills related to state-run cleanliness and hygiene projects are being printed by local village council and are distributed to passerby, which finds its way in open drains by careless people, does not make sense as the council shirks from their responsibility by saying the funds have exhausted in order to undertake real-drive-on-cleanliness-and-hygiene. 

The general public and shopkeepers wonder whether the authorities concerned wake up from their deep slumber, in order to clean up the mess at least in the beginning of New Year.