The GCC had appealed to the residents to segregate firecracker waste and hand it over to sanitation personnel collecting waste at their doorstep.
Chennai is believed to have generated about 650 tonnes of firecracker waste during the Deepavali festival this year with about 200 tonnes already cleared, even as the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) regretted poor compliance with its appeal to the residents to segregate firecracker waste.
In Tamil Nadu, one more person succumbed to injuries sustained while bursting fire crackers on Monday taking the total to two, even as about 4,100 persons were admitted in government hospitals for burn injuries and injuries sustained from attacks during Deepavali celebrations between November 7 and 9.
According to data released by the Health Department, the 108 call center received about 6,317 trauma related complaints, 462 complaints related to burns and 1,627 complained related to assault injury.
To ensure that the city is cleared of the waste generated due to bursting of firecrackers in the past three days, the GCC has deployed an additional 600 sanitation workers in addition to the existing strength and 350 additional vehicles have been deployed across the city.
“Till Monday morning, about 200 tonnes of firecracker waste have been cleared from all 15 zones of the GCC. We expect to remove another 450 tonnes of firecracker waste by Tuesday. The city would have been cleared of 650 tonnes of firecracker waste,” a senior GCC official told
