Solid Waste Management
The BMC said that due to lack of technical issues many civic projects are lying incomplete, so they decided to form a technical advisory committees (TAC) for most of its departments. Sitaram Kunte, Bhrihanmumbai Minicipal Corporation chief had decided to form such committees for education, water, sewage and solid waste management departments. These types of [...] Continue Reading »
Diwali celebrations added to the Chennai garbage woes. Around 5360 tonnes of solid waste was collected by the Chennai corporation. The corporation collected around 830 tonnes which is higher than the quantity of waste collected on a normal day. Few areas like Anna Nagar zone with 720 tonnes and this was largest collection of garbage [...] 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 Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) plans to bring in developers to help them out to segregate waste. It has already conveyed their wish to Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) – Bangalore. BBMP sources say that the waste management plan is an ambitious one and they want to educate developers in [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) sources say that expenditure on solid waste management may come down soon. The civic body spends around Rs 400 crore on solid waste management at present. The contractors participated in the new garbage tenders had quoted up to 40 per cent less. With relaxation of terms and conditions in [...] Continue Reading »
As Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike(BBMP) sets a deadline of October 1 for waste segregation for the residents, Red Bus, the largest bus ticketing company of India, organised an awareness programme on their office premises in Domlur on 28th September. The programme was organised by the employees of Red Bus and included an in depth presentation [...] Continue Reading »
The garbage disposal issue seems to have irked the residents of Bangalore as well as the court. The high court has issued notices to the state government, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) and Karnataka Slum Clearance Board (KSCB) in a public interest petition related to the garbage disposal system in the [...] Continue Reading »
The Bahrut Bangalore Municipal Corporation (BBMP) is to soon generate 8 MW of power from solid waste, said M K Shankarlingegowda BBMP commissioner. This comes along with Mysore City Corporation’s (MCC) plans to convert solid waste to generate power. According to M K Shankarlingegowda, Bangalore’s plant will be the first in India and he said that he [...] Continue Reading »
Union Minister of state for urban development Saugata Roy has declared that under Jawharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), 45 solid waste management projects have been approved. Laying stress at effective solid waste management, he stated that an estimated cost of Rs 2086 crore and 70 projects at a cost of Rs 409 crore [...] Continue Reading »
The civic facilities provided to the apartments in Hyderabad city and at public places has been traced to be poor! After a recent civic survey, it has been learnt that for a huge population of around 34,188 people in the city there exists only one public toilet. Altogether, in the city there is hardly 234 [...] Continue Reading »
