Even as the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC) has been campaigning vigorously to manage wastes effectively in the city, the Tamil Nadu Forest Academy (TNFA) campus lying in the middle of the city has been void of such activities making the area look all the more dumped.
Lack of proper waste management strategies in the campus had turned the place, which has a comparatively higher density of tree species than other campuses, into a dump yard. Sources inside TNFA also claim that CCMC is not collecting waste from the campus.
The campus hosts three institutions including TNFA, Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding and State Forest Service and more than 500 students are in these institutions. The students also stay in the hostel in the campus.
The campus also has important Forest Department offices including the office of the District Forest Officer, Conservator of Forests of Coimbatore Circle, residence and office of the Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Gass Forest Museum, a botanical garden and forest guest houses.
More than 500 families of Forest Department Staff also stay in the quarters inside the campus and one can imagine the amount of waste that is generated in a single day inside the campus.
However, while situation is such the waste that is produced in the campus is dumped in most disorganised ways.
“This is an important area in the city and with so much tree cover the positive contribution of the area to the environment is massive. But having said that, because of lack of proper waste management system, the area is losing its biological importance,” said one of the residents.
Residents also allege that remote areas in the campus provide room for illegal activities by trespassers during the night time.
“If the campus is properly managed, it can be a good place for people and botanical garden and the Museum could provide good time for them. But first, waste management should improve,” said another resident.
While corporation officials have claimed that Forest Department personnel should take care of the waste as it is a maintained by them, officials of forest department have said that necessary actions would be taken.
Lack of proper waste management strategies in the campus had turned the place, which has a comparatively higher density of tree species than other campuses, into a dump yard. Sources inside TNFA also claim that CCMC is not collecting waste from the campus.
The campus hosts three institutions including TNFA, Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding and State Forest Service and more than 500 students are in these institutions. The students also stay in the hostel in the campus.
The campus also has important Forest Department offices including the office of the District Forest Officer, Conservator of Forests of Coimbatore Circle, residence and office of the Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Gass Forest Museum, a botanical garden and forest guest houses.
More than 500 families of Forest Department Staff also stay in the quarters inside the campus and one can imagine the amount of waste that is generated in a single day inside the campus.
However, while situation is such the waste that is produced in the campus is dumped in most disorganised ways.
“This is an important area in the city and with so much tree cover the positive contribution of the area to the environment is massive. But having said that, because of lack of proper waste management system, the area is losing its biological importance,” said one of the residents.
Residents also allege that remote areas in the campus provide room for illegal activities by trespassers during the night time.
“If the campus is properly managed, it can be a good place for people and botanical garden and the Museum could provide good time for them. But first, waste management should improve,” said another resident.
While corporation officials have claimed that Forest Department personnel should take care of the waste as it is a maintained by them, officials of forest department have said that necessary actions would be taken.