The Kaththankudi people who were battered by the war are now hampered by muck

Oct 16, 2016

The people of  Batticaloa Kaththandiya area who were battered during the ethnic war are now battered  because of the muck.

It is reported that during the past 40 years the refuse that collected to the Kaththankudy lagoon has now taken a good number of acres of the lagoon.After the ethnic war when peace was ushering.the families who had left Kaththankudy had returned back to their homes in Kaththankudy.After they returned they had quipped that the muck question has risen to greater heights.
 
Ths Kaththankudy area is one which has a hundred percent Muslim population.There are 53160  persons in Kaththankudy and during the time of the ethnic war 542 families had left the area.It is reported that adjoining the the lagoon is.the Kaththankudy Alhira Junior school.There are 215 students who obtain education from this school.The Principal of this school ALM Farouk had quipped that owing to flies that roam in the vicinity of the school has made the students to be terribly inconvenienced.It is reported that for over 40 years as there is place to dump the rfuse collected the Municipal Council had been dumping the muck in the lagoon.
 
 It is also said that about 100 metres of the Lagoon over the refuse it had been covered with earth and made it a place for the students to play on as a playground since the year 2012.This too had been mentioned by the Principal ALM Farouk.
 
But the people of the area had said that this place is not suitable for the students to play..It is reported that between the Northern Batticloa Municipal council and the southern Ariyampathy provincial council there are land  conflicts which is one main reason for this muck matter..If these conflicts are resolved it is learnt that a solution got this refuse problem could be arrived at..This was the viwe of the Secretary of the Kattankudy Municipal council. SMM Shafee..He had said that after the war had ended 542 families who fled from Kaththankudy had returned to their homes and that attributes to the muck problem./For a day the authorities need to clear muck kilograms thirty thousand daily.Out of it 26 % is taken for the compose project the Municipal secretary has quipped.He had reiterated that one major problem is that they do not have a proper and suitable place to dump the refuse collected..Other than the 26 % of the muck that is used for the compost fertilizer project the balance refuse has to be dumped in the lagoon.As a result the lagoon is getting.covered wi. He had told this results in coral configuration in the sea.
 
It is reported that like in Kaththankudy, in Muthurajawela, Habarana,Hambantota.Meetotmulla, Badulla and many other places the muck problem is prevalent.It is said that the bio medical waste is the regarded as the worst among the waste in the world.
 
It is said that when such muck is dumped in the lagoon when it is exposed to sunshine the Methane gas is produced which makes easily for people to acquire asthma and other  related deceases.