Date:23/02/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/02/23/stories/2007022319640300.htm

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Noxious metro

BURNING ISSUE: Garbage dumped and set afire in the Perungudi area near the Pallikaranai marsh creates a thick canopy of smoke. Four years after a Union Environment Ministry's official team studied the situation and despite orders from the executive a nd courts, the burning of waste continues in this area just off the I.T corridor. — Photo: Shaju John