Garbage
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 »
The capital city is witnessing garbage issue and Delhi’s municipal corporations appear to be in crisis over the sanitation factor in the city during the festival season. The city garbage has increased by 1,000 metric tonnes a day. Expect the waste-to-energy plant in Okhla, the city lacks any arrangement to the disposing of garbage. Currently [...] Continue Reading »
This festival season, the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) is concerned about the cleanliness of the city. They have strictly asked the pooja organisers to keep the city clean while building pandals and immersing idols. Pooja organisers have asked to keep at least four dustbins near pandals, so that the sanitation workers an ollect the garbage [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) was hit out by Opposition leaders for allowing an NGO for implementing a Zero Garbage Project. To implement the Zero Garbage Project in 20 cities, the standing committee has approved the proposal to allot Rs 1.48 crore to NGO Janwani. BJP corporator, Shirnath Bhimale has opposed the decision by saying that [...] Continue Reading »
The management and staff of Bangalore-based developer Century Real Estate carried a cleanliness drive as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR). In association with the community organisation Ugly India, Century Real Estate undertook its new CSR movement, Clean Drive: Making Bangalore beautiful. It is an initiative aimed at cleaning up neighborhood roads of the [...] 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 »
Thiruvananthapuram flat dwellers have come up with an effective plan to address the garbage disposal issue. Over 90 apartment complexes in the city have tied up with the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (Credai) to set up bio-bins in their compounds to tackle the garbage management crisis. The process ensures that waste [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been able to reclaim the Lagoon Road after 30 years. In a major demolition drive, officials of P-north ward office have razed over 100 illegal shanties, 30 commercial structures and at least 12 illegal garages to clear Lagoon Road in Malwani area in Malad (West). Encroachment has been rampant [...] 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 »
