Awareness
Bangalore- Lack of proper groundwork before initiating the project by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has led to garbage mismanagement in the city, said Dr. A Ravindra, Advisor to the CM of Karnataka. According to Ravindra, several awareness campaigns and huge preparation are required before implementing any change in solid waste management, particularly, in [...] Continue Reading »
Ahmedabad- Satellite police have started a drive for door-to-door verification of domestic help registration. Those who have not registered get booked under section 188 of Indian Penal Code for not adhering to the police commissioner’s notification. On the first day of the drive, five people were served notice for hiring domestic help without police verification. [...] Continue Reading »
At the BBMP Budget session on Wednesday, Mayor of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, D Venkatesh Murthy, announced that all 198 corporators should take up an ‘andolan’ to ban plastic in their respective Wards. He added that whoever is successful in this campaign will be rewarded with Rs 1 lakh. Though the Palike had taken [...] Continue Reading »
Earth Day has been a motivation all over the world to keep the locality clean and dirt free. Residents in Chennai also motivated did their part by cleaning up their neighbourhood, beaches and locality. But experts say that these one day will hardly put any impact in residents’ mind and they should work on daily [...] Continue Reading »
The environmental condition in Gurgaon is deteriorating day by day. Besides infrastructural development, water, air, and noise pollution levels are also on a rise. Activists say that there is still hope but only if the residents of the city act. There are many reasons to be worried about like water scarcity, water pollution and ground [...] Continue Reading »
Always blaming BBMP for anything and everything is not the solution! Residents of Kammanahalli Ward have learnt this and have started developing civic sense on their own. The residents are witnessing heaps of garbage in front of their homes for many days now. They are suffering because of negligence of few of the other residents [...] Continue Reading »
As the deadline for installation of rain water harvesting (RWH) systems is nearing, some people are taking advantage of the situation swearing false promises! Some of the braggers are making money by boasting that they can get no objection certificates (NOC) from authorities without installing the RWH system. They are trying to fool naives who [...] Continue Reading »
Waste segregation is a major issue faced by the waste collectors in the cities. For this reason, the residents are taught the benefits of segregating the dry and wet waste before dumping them. Waste collectors in Pimpri-Chinchwad have been facing a tough time segregating wastes as Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has failed to spread awareness [...] Continue Reading »
