Monsoon Time is Disease Time in Kerala – See These Photos to Know the Reasons
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(Reply for this blog post from the office of Dr Shashi Tharoor, MOS for External Affairs and MP from Thiruvananthapuram is given at the end of the post. Please scroll down)
Monsoon has reached Kerala and with that we hear news of outbreak of diseases – Cholera, Viral fever, Chikungunya, Dengue Fever to name a few of them. This is a phenomenon that is recurring in the last few years during the monsoon season. Every year a few hundred people die and thousands of people get sick. Every year we hear the authorities assuring the people that steps will be taken to prevent these diseases. But do they do anything to prevent these diseases?
Here are few photos my father sent me a few days back from Trivandrum
See the photo below. You can see a house on the right side of this so called stream. They have to be extremely lucky not to get a disease.
Another set of photos – these photos were taken at a place called Thiruvallam where Karamana River Trivandrum City and the Karamana River
Yes, it is true that responsible authorities are not doing sufficient to keep our environment safe. But as citizens are we doing our duty? We, the common man also have some responsibility of dumping these wastes in these streams. Let us all join together to spread the word about the need to protect the environment from any kind of pollution.
Here is the reply I got from the office of Dr Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for External Affairs and MP from Thiruvananthapuram constituency.
Dear Brijesh:
Dr. Shashi Tharoor wanted me to respond to your blog <http://www.sonyvellayani.com/
I've detailed below points raised in that blog and its possible solution.
Amayizhanjan Thodu (Kannanmoola Thodu):
Kannanmoola thodu starts from the up stream side of Kannanmoola bridge and ends in Akkulam lake. Pazhavangadi thodu, Ullor thodu and Pattom thodu join this thodu near pump house on the upstream side of Kannanmoola bridge. As in the case of other canals this is also in a very poor condition in view of its carrying capacity, pollution, bank erosion and low velocity. Unless the condition is improved flooding in these areas are most likely and the hygienic condition will further worsen.
Parvathy Puthanar (TS Canal):
It is the major man made drain in the city. 36 small drains from the city
discharge into this canal. This canal runs parallel to the sea in the coastal belt of Thiruvananthapuram city.
Pollution at Thiruvallom:
Karamana River and Killi River used to be the life lines of the city. They flow together from Pallathukadavu up to the downstream of Thiruvallom bridge where the river again splits as two tributaries one of which falls into the Arabian Sea and other joins the Parvathy Puthanar forming an island in between known as Edayar island.
The existing sewage farm at Valiyathura is overloaded, resulting in overflow and seepage to the Parvathy Puthanar Canal and results in pollution of surrounding water bodies including the one used by devotees of Thiruvallom Shree Parasurama Temple. A modern Sewage Treatment Plant at Valiyathura is proposed as the only corrective measure.
Possible Solution:
The 526 crore Central government funded City Development Plan of TVM under JNNURM has provisions for sewage, waste management and canal waste management, which when implemented would solve the above issues. Dr. Shashi Tharoor is following up the implementation of this scheme by Corporation of TVM.
Regards,
PRAVEEN RAM
Thanks a lot for Dr Shashi Tharoor and his team to taking time to reply to one of the main issues facing Trivandrum. Let us hope in the next five years these issues will be solved forever.
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