Municipality
The Karnataka government was rapped by the Karnataka high court for lack of initiatives taken up to tackle the mounting garbage problem. The high court has asked the government to identify five more landfill sites in five directions around Bangalore within two weeks for temporary disposal of garbage as there is no notifications of any [...] Continue Reading »
The recent rap by the High Court of Karnataka to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) concerning its feet on scientific garbage disposal, an initiation to set up a unique project was taken. This project will be set up near NMKRV college, Jayanagar. As per the segregation rule by the BBMP, the collected waste from the eight wards of Padmanabhanagar [...] Continue Reading »
Another effort made by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to eliminate garbage all over the city has been noted where 410 garbage trucks were sent to four landfills. Concerning the waste disposal, recently the High Court of Karnataka criticized the civic body for exhibiting a decent picture of the garbage clearance in the city. The count of [...] Continue Reading »
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) seems not to get any respite from garbage issues. In a petition, the new approved garbage tender proposals floated by BBMP have been challenged by old contractors. The counselor for the petition says that the new proposals have many discrepancies. The new proposals require a pourakarmika to sweep at least [...] Continue Reading »
In a recent announcement made, the citizen services offered at the State Secretariat level will be brought under Sakala. All sakala services will be made online by March 31, 2013. This announcement was made by S. Suresh Kumar, Minister for BWSSB, Law and Parliamentary Affairs, after including 114 new services, including 12 offered by the Bangalore Development [...] Continue Reading »
With the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) decision to segregate the waste has only worsened matters and has increased the litter. As always, the street corners and the vacant sites have been the targets of litterbugs who are shying away to segregate the garbage instead opting for an easy way out. This eventually contradicts BBMP’s decision of increasing [...] Continue Reading »
With the garbage crisis all over the city, Rajneesh Goel, Commissioner of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has promised to create a different Bangalore to the Bench of the Lok Adalat in the coming months. Goel stated that they are working towards introducing a total garbage disposal mechanism different from all these years. He also [...] Continue Reading »
The civic authorities of Bangalore seem to have come up with a unique plan as a segregation plant, biogas converter and a gas-to-power plant will be set up in a vacant land near NMKRV College. The waste collected from eight wards in Padmanabhanagar Assembly constituency will be first segregated and converted to biogas. Then the [...] Continue Reading »
Due to the rain in Bangalore, garbage has become much bigger mess to tackle. Garbage has been piled up as a result of pourakarmikas not turning up for work due to the non stop rain in the city. The chairperson of Karnataka Land Army Corporation stated that garbage was not cleared in Rajajinagar and Basaveshwaranagar [...] Continue Reading »
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided at a meeting of the BMC corporators to build three footbridges in Bhbaneswar. The bridges would be constructed at Jayadev Vihar, Master Canteen and Rupali Square and each footbridge would reportedly be developed at a cost of Rs 2.5 crore. As per the agreement, the contractor would make profit [...] Continue Reading »
