2,50,000 Condoms found in a garbage in Alanganallur, Madurai

Around 2.5 lakh condoms supplied by various International agencies to the Tamil Nadu AIDS control Society as part of a programme to prevent spread of HIV infection have been found in garbage adjoining an irrigation tank at Alanganallur in this district. Officials, who inspected the area on receiving complaints from local residents about breathing problems after inhaling smoke from some burnt boxes of condoms, said these are worth about Rs 20 lakh. As per official records, the condoms were supplied to the local wing during 2009. However, an official who did not wish to be named said this was only on paper and in reality no condoms had been supplied. Officials said they are verifying the batch number of the boxes and the voluntary agencies to which they had been supplied, after which these agencies would be blacklisted.