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12 wards to go zero garbage from today
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s ambitious Zero Garbage project, which was to have begun in 30 wards from Monday, will be taken up only in 12 wards. Push for participation Towards educating the citizens to segregate waste at source, the BBMP will distribute pamphlets to all the homes in the select wards. In February, the BBMP announced that the project would be taken up in 50 wards on a pilot basis. The former BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah had announced the pilot project would test effective solid waste management practices and that the BBMP would implement it successfully by taking all the stakeholders into confidence.





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Public dumping of waste persists in Coimbatore despite removal of garbage bins
























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