However, the city corporation generate more (about 300 tons) well above the installed capacity of about 157 tons. As a result it was impossible for the plant to process such huge amount of garbage in that plant. The area of the dump site also increased because of the uncontrolled dumping. In the meantime, the company responsible for the management of the dumping site stopped the operations and left the site due to the difference of opinion with the city corporation. This uncontrolled dump site possesses a heavy health hazards for the local residents. People livig nearby areas alleged severe health alignments like skin diseases, respiratory diseases and other diseases. Seepages of waste materials and water from the site also polluted the nearby water sources.

Looking at the sever health problems, the local started protesting. Villagers started protesting and joined hands to form a people’s committee in January 2011. They organized protest movements in various forms. However, government did not paid attention to the people complains. Even some of the protestors were book by state police in many false cases. In September 2011, the committee started severe protest movement and blocked the corporation’s garbage trucks from entering into their village.

As the blockade continue people of the Thiruvananthapuram faces lots of problem because residents started dumping of their wastes anywhere in the city. In the meantime the city corporation went to the court and got court order to open the site in spite of public protest [1].

Defying prohibitory orders, hundreds of local people and activists of the Vilappil Janakeeya Samithi had gathered in front of the Sreekanda Sastha Temple to prevent the movement of machinery or garbage to the treatment plant[4]. Due to heavy protest by the local residents the government was finally forced to close down the site [1].

Thiruvananthapuram City Corporation got the financial assistance from the central government under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) program. The corporation had received Rs. 24 crore from the Centre for the project. It had spent a total of Rs. 11 crore for various processes like installation of machinery, preparation of green belt and sanitary landfill. Altogether, the corporation had invested about Rs 70 crore for various needs related to the factory since the inception of the plant in 2000 [2].