Waste management
The civic body in association with NGO’s is planning to involve rag-pickers in waste management and cleanliness drive. Around 6000 ragpickers have been identified by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). They believe that the project would take care of garbage dumps on the city roads as well as the increasing number of rag-pickers. AMC commissioner Guruprasad Mohapatra said [...] Continue Reading »
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 »
It seems there is no end to Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) garbage woes with 15,000 tonnes of uncleared garbage, the Palike is having hard times to deal with the mounting waste generated by the ongoing festival season. Despite working overtime to clear the waste piled up across the City, the Palike’s workers could remove [...] Continue Reading »
Angry villagers at the landfill site, of Old Madras Road, near Hoskote, blocked Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara palike (BBMP) trucks from disposing garbage and refused to heed warnings by the police posted in the village. Since they are left with no option, BBMP would continue dumping waste in Mandur. The garbage crisis took an ugly face in [...] 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 »
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 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 »
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 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 »
