Garbage dumping
Garbage contractors staged a protest in front of the office of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner demanding security for their vehicles and to take care of the garbage dumped at landfills. Rajneesh Goel, BBMP Commissioner declared that the BBMP would form a squad of five officials who will manage the sites during night [...] Continue Reading »
As the city of Bangalore grapples with loads of garbage being dumped on streets and BBMP failing to find a place to dump them, finally a solution seems to be on the horizon. The BBMP council approved a proposal for purchasing 400 acres of land at Bagepalli in Chikkaballapur district for waste disposal. The civic [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has handed out contracts to new contractors. As Bangalore is reeling under uncleared garbage dumps, contracts go to new hands to clean up the city. The BBMP council has accorded approval to the new garbage tenders. As a result, the corporation got rid of the old garbage mafia and [...] Continue Reading »
Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) commissioner R A Rajeev has offered a 5% property tax reduction to housing societies who reduce their waste by more than 50% and recycle the waste generated in their compounds. More than 700 plus metric tonnes of waste is generated every day and dumped into the private landfills or illegally burnt [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is seriously working on the sanitation issues in the city. They have wrote to the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) seeking permission to dump garbage from the city over 22 acres of land over to the civic body authority. Communities around Mandur are keeping a strict vigilance to [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai suburbs are witnessing rapid realty growth. However, deplorable infrastructure condition have been a menace that citizens have to grapple with. Medavakkam has witnessed a real-estate boom in recent years with residential apartment blocks and individual houses sprouting up rapidly. Poor state of infrastructure, including unmotorable and poorly lit roads, and the poor disposal of [...] Continue Reading »
The newly invented plan by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to clear the garbage will be implemented from October 1. Owing to this, the flat owners of Sovereign Park apartments in Basavangudi are panic stricken as the BBMP has issued a notification to put residential high-rises on par with commercial entities. This notification grouped them [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore civic administration has promised to rid the city from thousands of tonnes of overflowing garbage. However, search for land to dump garbage is not yet over. The residents around Mandur, about 45 km north of Bangalore, have agreed to resumption of dumping of garbage in the area on the fulfillment of certain conditions. The [...] Continue Reading »
BBMP is on the hunt to identify vacant land in Bangalore to dump garbage. They are searching for available land on the outskirts to dump garbage on a temporary basis. Sources reveal that BMTC’s rocky vacant land in city limits will be used as temporary dump yards. The deputy mayor’s efforts to convince the villagers [...] Continue Reading »
The authenticity of penalty receipts issued by Chennai corporation against those who dump debris and garbage on the city roads has come under the scanner. The issue has been raised by an RTI activist. A receipt copy available with this newspaper lacks mandatory details like name and designation of the officer collecting the penalty. Moreover, [...] Continue Reading »
