Bangalore residents
Residents of Vijaya Bank Colony near Bannerghatta Road had to face trouble as Over 150 homes in the colony were flooded with lake water mixed with sewage water recently. The unfortunate incident, which left residents having to clean sewage mixed water from their homes and to put up with the stench, was caused due to [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Malleswaram, Bangalore have shown the way to manage the waste in a neat manner. They have launched a project ‘My Malleswaram’, to dispose of waste scientifically. The project will be carried out in association with BBMP, where 90 per cent of the wet waste collected from houses and commercial establishments in Malleswaram will [...] Continue Reading »
As garbage disposal remains a crucial issue, some apartments dwellers in Bangalore have taken up segregating waste at its source in their apartment complexes. Residents are following different models for the purpose. In the first model, small quantity of waste generated in households is easily segregated into wet waste (kitchen waste) and dry waste (plastic, [...] Continue Reading »
Over 2,000 residents of JP Nagar I Phase were given training on waste disposal by Indian People’s Council. 50 volunteers of the citizen action group enlightened them of the importance of reducing and segregating waste at source. The group sources state that 70 per cent of residents welcomed the idea of segregating waste at households [...] Continue Reading »
The ‘Garden City’ residents are waiting to see when the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will wake up to their plight and takes some remedial action against garbage that is piling up in Bangalore as the contractors are not bothered to collect it. The communities, who live around Mavallipura, where the city’s garbage was dumped [...] Continue Reading »
The fashion of installing Rainwater harvesting system seems not to have fancied the minds of Bangalore residents. The main fact is that maximum of the population do not know the functioning and structure of this system. To prove the same, the “water man of Bangalore” Jeff D’Lemos a retired engineer says that he has been [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of JRD Tata Nagar, Bangalore have thought of helping themselves than keep on criticizing the authorities. The best example is when in 1995, the water problem took toll then they paid Rs 78 lakh to the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to the needful. That money was given to lay water supply [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore residents are turning more and more eco-friendly! With Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) banning the plastics less than 40 micron, the residents belonging to J.P nagar and surrounding areas had arranged a walkathon recently spreading awareness about ban of plastic bags. These residents are the morning walkers in Lalbagh garden who voiced out their [...] Continue Reading »
