Local squads in Kozhikode intensify efforts to catch fly-tippers red-handed

Practice of paying migrant labourers to dump waste illegally being noticed

Ward-level people’s committees and Health Department squads under various local bodies in Kozhikode are intensifying efforts against the illegal dumping of waste in public places and unoccupied private or government land in villages and city suburbs.

People’s committees have been told to catch the offenders red-handed to curb the practice that continues unabated despite the regular functioning of local waste collection and treatment services.

The squads functioning in Kuttiyadi and Vadakara municipality have exposed two cases in which the fly-tippers were caught on the spot. In Kuttiyadi, the man caught was a local trader who was asked to take back the waste dumped and remit the fine amount. In Vadakara, it was a group of migrant labourers, who was caught while throwing kitchen waste and other rotten food items along a rural road.