NEW DELHI: Congress leader Karti P Chidambaram on Tuesday advised the MK Stalin-led Tamil Nadu government to learn garbage management from the BJP-ruled Indore.
“Can the @chennaicorp name one learning & implementation of a practise from any of the previous study tours? Poor garbage management, street dogs & cattle, broken sidewalks & potholed roads is the hallmark of Chennai. Visit Indore to start with,” he said in a post on X.
He was reacting to a report that said that officials from Chennai were set to visit Europe to study waste management.
“Officials from Chennai to visit Europe to study waste management techniques in May World Bank will support Chennai officials’ visit to cities like Barcelona to study clean waste management. This could help Tamil Nadu adopt better solutions amid protests over local dump yards,” the report said.
Indore, in 2025, earned the title of India’s ‘Cleanest City’ for seventh consecutive year.
According to an August 2024 study, nearly 80% of households in Chennai practiced waste segregation, yet 77% of the waste ultimately gets mixed before reaching landfill sites in Kodungaiyur and Perungudi.
The study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology by researchers from SRM Institute of Science and Technology and Pondicherry University, highlighted the city’s inadequate and underutilized waste processing infrastructure, contributing to ineffective waste management.