Residents protest garbage dumping in graveyard in Kothagudem

Dumping of garbage in a graveyard by municipal sanitation staff has forced the residents of SC Colony in old Paloncha to take to the streets.

The residents, who have been opposing dumping of garbage in the graveyard staged a series of protests for the last few days and even staged a dharna in the late night hours. Their protests hampered sanitation activity in Paloncha town in the district. 

They complained that Paloncha Municipality sanitation staff are



dumping garbage as well as dead animals, sometimes, in the graveyard causing trouble for the residents in conducting last rites if any of the colony residents died.Speaking to Telangana Today, a resident of the colony, Miriyala Venkateshwarlu informed that the colony residents have been using the graveyard for the past several decades. Memorandums were given to municipal and district officials during grievance cell meetings to take steps to stop turning the graveyard into a dumping yard, but in vain, he said.