Garbage dumping
The complaints of the residents of localities in Ward 44 of the Coimbatore Corporation seem to be growing louder. The Southern Railway has 53 acres on the western side of the road that connects Sanganoor Road with Nallampalayam Road. The land stocks garbage, waste from poultries and meat shops, and construction debris. Added to that, [...] Continue Reading »
In order to improve garbage collection, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to start a second shift. The BBMP council passed a resolution to hike the tender amount for garbage contractors by 20 per cent. Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy pointed out irregularities among garbage contractors as many of them claim bills without cleaning [...] Continue Reading »
Garbage issues are creating a major problem for the city of Mumbai. Mayor Sunil Prabhu put the blame on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) at a civic general body meeting on Monday for the problems faced by citizens due to garbage dumping. The mayor expressed his views that contingency plan must be made for garbage [...] Continue Reading »
The Bombay High Court has directed the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) to take appropriate steps to implement recommendations of National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) regarding the removal of health hazards caused by garbage dumping at a ground in Turbhe in Navi Mumbai. NEERI was appointed by the court to visit the site and [...] Continue Reading »
The ambitious project taken up by the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) seeking the door-to-door collection of garbage, now seems to be in disorder with the project mostly failing to elicit assistance from the city residents. As being admitted by the civic body itself, sanitary workers have to face hostile conduct from many households and also [...] Continue Reading »
Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) continues their crusade against garbage dumping in public places. In a recent drive staffers of Cream Corner, Ramdaspeth, Central Bazaar road were caught by the squads of health department throwing garbage on the road and were slapped a fine of Rs 10,000. Apart from Cream Corner, action was also taken against [...] Continue Reading »
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is facing residents’ agitation against the garbage disposal in the Mavallipura locality and wants Palike to shut down the garbage dump yard in the area. The villagers staged protest and prevented garbage dumping into the landfill. Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy has agreed to visit Mavallipura on Thursday. Health risk is [...] Continue Reading »
The tussle between public and private authority has pushed back development in Gurgaon. Almost the entire area of ward 34 comes under private developer DLF in New Gurgaon. Due to this, the authority of the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) in the area remains constrained. The councilor of the area has also been in a [...] Continue Reading »
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is geared up to check the tendency among citizens to dump garbage at places other than the designated spots and to end this night patrolling has been started to make sure the city remains clean and garbage free. As the new initiative begins, NMC officials have imposed fine on hawkers [...] Continue Reading »
Garbage trucks of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMD) were attacked by some people living near Bandhan party plot on SG Highway, on Sunday evening. Angry residents threw stones at garbage trucks as they were unhappy with the allotment of space in the area for garbage dumping. The local people had been protesting for long against the [...] Continue Reading »
