KSRTC staff dig up dumpyard, revive forgotten pond at Vizhinjam depot

30 employees pooled in money from their pockets and collected ₹80,000 to finish the job

- VARSHA SOMARAJ @T'Puram

A HEAP of waste lay near the Vizhinjam KSRTC depot. And the stench was unbearable. It was a place no one paid much attention to, except to park three buses on its hardened surface. Little did the KSRTC employees know that a pond buried for over 35 years under the waste would be a solution to their long-standing water shortage.

"It was just a dumping ground for years. Old employees told us there was once a pond here, a place where people used to bathe and where fish thrived. Honestly, we didn't believe it at first," said Satheesh Kumar V O, inspector at the depot.