Has the City Municipal Council violated the important Supreme Court order? There are murmurs heard about this.
Are the intellegentsia of the city keeping mum in spite of being in the know-how? Does the city administration have no respect for the SC order? Where are the responsible people’s representatives and other associations?
These are the questions that have arisen because the SC had passed an order relating to solid waste disposal and environment. It is not sure whether it should be said that CMC has violated the SC orders or it has neglected it or it is helpless because it has not been able to implement it.
“Why should they become helpless sir? They have not built a single road or provided any basic facilities. At least we felt that they would respect the SC order and take proper steps to make arrangements for solid waste disposal. Even that has landed in a controversy. If they do not follow the court order then they have to face contempt of court action. Do they (city administration) not have at least this much of awareness,” asks Poornima (name changed) a resident of Jayanagar.
The SC about four years back had passed an order asking all the major cities to make scientific arrangements for garbage and solid waste disposal. Many of the cities respecting the SC order made attempts to dispose off garbage and solid waste in a scientific way and they succeeded to a large extent.
But did this order copy not reach Tumkur at all? Or is it that CMC officials did not know how to implement this order. Or is it that knowingly they kept quiet as they felt that it is always difficult to bring any order into practice?
However, the CMC has brought into effect, ‘Nirmala Nagara,’ scheme by collecting garbage from door-to-door. This is welcome. This scheme has been successful too only outwardly.
But, where is the garbage collected under ‘Nirmala Nagara,’ scheme being disposed? It will no doubt be disposed in the modern dustbins provided in various places in the city. But where will the garbage thus collected be disposed? This is the fundamental question.
If the truth has to be told openly then the solid waste of Tumkur is being disposed off in the open grounds on the outskirts of the city. The way it is disposed is indeed pathetic, as the garbage collectors have to throw it in the
open areas surreptiously. This is indeed unfortunate for Tumkur.
Added to this this solid waste is set on fire during night when no one is around. Nobody is bothered about the environmental pollution this causes. As this solid waste is being outside Siddartha Engineering college, the students there are upset.
Should Tumkur have been selected as ‘Clean city,’ for this purpose? The CMC administration had asked for time from the court. But people are wondering how much more time it needs. Hence the whole area outside Tumkur has become ‘Un’ clean city.
The present deputy commissioner has taken up this matter very seriously and identified Ajjagondanahalli (40 acres) about 15 km from Tumkur. But here too a discordant not has arisen like the earlier time when Amalapura region was identified during the period when Mallikarjun Dyaberi was the DC.
Hence to make the farmers aware that nothing will happen to their fertile land there are thoughts doing the rounds to take them to places like Mysore, Mangalore, Panaji, Surat, Pune and show them how it has been done to convince them.
If the SC order is not followed then there is every chance of ‘Contempt of Court,’ being enforced according to law. Because the concept of ‘Nirmala Nagara,’ has already been implemented. Hence the CMC has to wake up because the Rs 54 crore that the CMC will get for development works could be blown up.
