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Measure to ensure easy disposal in dump yards
Garbage segregation to be mandatory
Bangalore, Dec 4, DHNS:
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to make segregation of garbage (wet and dry) compulsory for large structures.
At a meeting held earlier this week, the Palike decided that marriage halls, apartments and institutions will be forced to have waste segregation at the source. The rules may be brought into effect within the next week.
The BBMP will penalise the citizens who do not comply with the rules as per the Karnataka Municipal Corporation Act (KMC), 1972.
Further, the Palike has also decided to place a Rs one lakh revolving fund with the ward-level engineers in association with the Resident Welfare Associations for the disposal of garbage in their areas.
The BBMP will publish advertisements and carry out door-to-door awareness campaign on the garbage segregation. “The main idea behind the segregation of waste is to ensure that the waste is disposed easily in the dump yards,” an official said. The wet garbage is to be disposed in compost pits created in public spaces like parks, playgrounds and other areas under the BBMP.
It will further have transit points in the City for the workers to collect the waste and dump them. From the transit points the trucks will then ferry them to the dump yards. Meanwhile, the K R Puram nine-point programme will now be incorporated into new tenders floated for garbage disposal. The programme would include placing two people and a tipper truck for every street apart from using coloured bins for segregation.
Reading all the previous comments, I feel that our fellow citizens have lost all hopes. Nah! friends, lets fight without fainting. Dont lose hope. The authorities, by bringing more rules are striving through this choking of the corrupt system. Lets stand strong for them and encourage them instead of demoralizing them. At the same time, I feel if we are so proud of being one of the oldest civilizations, then we dont need RULES/LAWS to do some common-sense activities. Do you need a rule/law NOT to vomit/s**t in your own plate? If one feels that need then, you are not civilized.
When you have a bunch of specifically picked useless fellows, corrupt and totally inefficient appointed to run a city, what use is all this on a sheet of paper that the commissioner knows is totally unenforceable.
We have all the rules, but nobody to follow them, when will we stop taking ourselves, our country and our future for granted? Why can we work better for the next generations? Why do we as a civilization propogate misery over generations?
My friend Ramesh, what you have said is right but rules/laws are for those who do not keep them. But its not a rule if you can do it with common sense. As for me, if I am on a journey, I keep all the junk and waste papers with me until I find a dustbin, because that is my common sense not to litter the city but for others it becomes a rule and they will not keep it. Lets change our mindset only then we will see our country changed.
At a meeting held earlier this week, the Palike decided that marriage halls, apartments and institutions will be forced to have waste segregation at the source. The rules may be brought into effect within the next week.
