More plans to end garbage woes
12 years, 6 months ago

More plans to end garbage woes

The Hindu  

The garbage issue does not show any sign of abating in the city as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike is still finding it hard to tackle the situation. The BBMP is contemplating on an action plan to develop areas surrounding the dump yards, besides appointing Municipal Magistrates. Criticising Srinivas Gayathri Resource Recovery Ltd. for failing to fulfil the tender conditions prescribed for the landfill at Mandur, BBMP Commissioner Rajneesh Goel directed the officials to issue a notice to the company. He will have the power to levy penalty on violators.” Senior officials said that the BBMP can impose penalty under the Karnataka Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, albeit only after conviction. With Mavallipura shut down by Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, it is said that the BBMP is sending nearly 1,500 tonnes of garbage to Mandur and some to Lakshmipura on Bannerghatta Road.

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Residents protest demanding immediate closure of waste processing plant
1 month, 1 week ago

Residents protest demanding immediate closure of waste processing plant

The Hindu  

Bengaluru Residents staged a protest today, calling for the immediate shutdown of the MSW Processing Plant at Chikkanagamangala after inspection reports from Joint Committees formed as per the National Green Tribunal orders in 2019 and 2022, highlighted severe operational lapses. Madhu N. N., Joint Commissioner, South Zone, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike joined the protest and assured residents that she would …

BBMP serves over 600 notices to owners of vacant sites that have turned into dumping grounds in Bengaluru
2 months ago

BBMP serves over 600 notices to owners of vacant sites that have turned into dumping grounds in Bengaluru

The Hindu  

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has commenced issuing notices to owners of vacant site for neglecting the land and turning it into dumping yards. According to Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited, the Revenue Department has issued over 600 notices in the last three months. Section 18 of the BBMP Solid Waste Management Bye-Law 2020 mandates the owners of vacant sites …

BBMP clears 15MT of waste from streets after New Year events
2 months, 3 weeks ago

BBMP clears 15MT of waste from streets after New Year events

Hindustan Times  

The streets of the city’s Central Business District were cleared of 15 metric tonnes of waste in just four hours following New Year celebrations, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike said on Thursday. BBMP clears 15MT of waste from streets after New Year events BBMP shared an update on X, highlighting the action that ensured the streets were free of waste by …

BBMP to impose penalties for dumping waste on vacant sites
7 months, 2 weeks ago

BBMP to impose penalties for dumping waste on vacant sites

The Hindu  

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has issued a new order under the Solid Waste Management Rules 2016, Solid Waste Management Bye-laws 2020, and BBMP Act 2020 in connection with the imposition of penalties and collection of costs for waste disposal from vacant lands/plots in the city. According to the new rules, zonal offices will identify all vacant plots/lands/places where solid …

Karnataka High Court Asks BBMP To Consider Criminal Action, Enhanced Penalty For Violation Of Solid Waste Management Rules
1 year, 6 months ago

Karnataka High Court Asks BBMP To Consider Criminal Action, Enhanced Penalty For Violation Of Solid Waste Management Rules

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court on Monday suggested to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and State government to consider revising the penalty being imposed on violators of Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. “As such to deal with this aspect the respondent BBMP may also consider initiating a penal action against violators taking recourse to appropriate provisions of IPC,” it added. "If …

Residents around waste processing plants unhappy, but BBMP says adequate steps taken
2 years, 4 months ago

Residents around waste processing plants unhappy, but BBMP says adequate steps taken

The Hindu  

To avoid the dumping of garbage in the landfills, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, in the last few years, has set up seven wet waste processing plants in various parts of the city, which, over the period, has had to face citizens’ protests over stench from these plants. Prasanna Kumar, a resident who is running a shop near the plant, …

Bengaluru’s trash is no man’s treasure
2 years, 4 months ago

Bengaluru’s trash is no man’s treasure

The Hindu  

“Seven years ago, 20 trucks full of garbage started to come to our village. We only got to know after four years when our borewell water turned dark, and I had to undergo a surgery after an infection in my throat,” said Jayram Xavier, a 65-year-old resident of Bingipura village, who is staying near the abandoned landfill site in southern …

Move for a bin-free city ends in disaster
3 years, 11 months ago

Move for a bin-free city ends in disaster

The Hindu  

GHMC’s attempt towards a bin-free city has ended up in disaster, with garbage piling up at majority of the locations where bins existed earlier. GHMC truck comes once a day to clear the spot, but it gets littered again within no time,” said Syed Bilal, a resident of Shankar Nagar near Chaderghat, complaining that the garbage heaps were serving as …

Consider Dissolving BBMP For Failure To Follow Solid Waste Management Rules:Karnataka HC Tells Govt
5 years, 4 months ago

Consider Dissolving BBMP For Failure To Follow Solid Waste Management Rules:Karnataka HC Tells Govt

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has directed the State Government to consider whether action of dissolving the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike deserves to be taken under Section 99 of Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, for making persistent defaults in the performance of its duties imposed by Municipal Solid Waste Rules, 2000 and Solid Waste Management Rule, 2016 and the other Rules framed …

Guest Column: High Court should take charge of the city
6 years, 6 months ago

Guest Column: High Court should take charge of the city

Deccan Chronicle  

The High Court recently remarked that if the BBMP is incompetent, it should be shut down and I agree, considering the pathetic condition of the city’s roads and the garbage menace stalking it. So, I suggest the High Court should take charge and the BBMP should directly report to it. It was only after the High Court intervened that the …

Garbage: Violators will have to pay more fine
6 years, 6 months ago

Garbage: Violators will have to pay more fine

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: BBMP is contemplating to sharply hike the fines for residents who are not segregating their garbage at source. However, the track record of segregation at source in the city so far has been very poor, with BBMP not even able to cross 50 percent mark out of the total garbage generated. Though BBMP claims it is aggressively carrying out …

Public garbage bins on way out in Mumbai, 1,300 will be gone soon
6 years, 7 months ago

Public garbage bins on way out in Mumbai, 1,300 will be gone soon

Hindustan Times  

If the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation manages to implement what it is planning, you may be able to walk on several streets without having to contend with the stench emanating from the big public garbage bins. The BMC is planning to get rid of the big metal public garbage bins and encourage door-to-door collection of garbage. Chandrashekhar Prabhu, a town planning …

BBMP to cancel licences of shops, establishments using banned plastic
6 years, 8 months ago

BBMP to cancel licences of shops, establishments using banned plastic

The Hindu  

Shops and establishments that continue to use forms of plastic that have already been banned run the risk of their trade licences being cancelled. Mayor R. Sampath Raj said that though plastic in all forms, such as disposable plates, spoons, cups and covers, have been banned, many shops and establishments in the city continue to use them. Ruling party leader …

Compost piles up, but BBMP yet to buy it
7 years, 11 months ago

Compost piles up, but BBMP yet to buy it

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: Bengalureans were told to take up composting of their wet waste and there was a carrot dangled by the BBMP, which said it would buy the compost generated by the households. If the BBMP fails to buy compost from citizens, waste segregation that has reached 50 percent across the city will see an alarming dip and garbage piles will …

Compost waste and BBMP will buy it from you
8 years, 1 month ago

Compost waste and BBMP will buy it from you

Deccan Chronicle  

BENGALURU: In an attempt to encourage and incentivize segregation of waste at source and composting at individual level, the BBMP has assured to buy the compost from the citizens. During the drive BBMP came across certain apartments and households that had been successful in composting the waste and in order to reward them it has offered to buy the compost …

Ramakanth: Thrash the trash like this 78-yr-old
8 years, 2 months ago

Ramakanth: Thrash the trash like this 78-yr-old

Deccan Chronicle  

Waste is treasured the world over, with segregated garbage being used in recycled products, compost that makes natural manure, to produce biogas and even generate electricity. At 78, Mr N.S Ramakanth is hard at work to persuade people to segregate their garbage in their homes and offices and hopes to return to Bengaluru its title of 'Garden City' that has …

Who's going to clean up your mess, BBMP?
8 years, 3 months ago

Who's going to clean up your mess, BBMP?

Deccan Chronicle  

Why won’t Bengaluru’s garbage problems go away? The BBMP, which is constantly lamenting people’s reluctance to segregate garbage at source, is not doing enough to popularize the idea, believes urban evangelist,V Ravichandar, suggesting that it has many options to build awareness, from roping in school children to carry the message home to slapping fines on those who don’t fall in …

Bengaluru: Garbage on fire, they play with people's lives!
8 years, 5 months ago

Bengaluru: Garbage on fire, they play with people's lives!

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: For the residents of Susheela Road in Sudhama Nagar ward, it is not just the garbage pile up they have to worry about. The residents of Susheela Road, Dodda Mavalli, falling under Sudhama Nagar, BBMP ward, are grappling with an unusual garbage problem. Unsegregated garbage is illegally dumped next to a transformer at night and it is often set …

Garbage: Where BBMP fails, activists take over
8 years, 8 months ago

Garbage: Where BBMP fails, activists take over

Deccan Chronicle  

BENGALURU: Question: What else can fed-up, frustrated citizens do when BBMP leaves mounds of garbage uncleared for years? N. S. Ramakanth, a member of the solid waste management expert committee constituted by the Supreme Court, told DC that the area near the Economically Weaker Section quarters near Ejipura has turned into a total eyesore due to the dumping of garbage …

BBMP's garbage tenders fail to attract contractors
8 years, 9 months ago

BBMP's garbage tenders fail to attract contractors

Deccan Chronicle  

BENGALURU: The snowballing of the garbage crisis appears to be imminent, with the garbage contractors holding the city to ransom for the second time by staying away from the garbage tendering process. Stringent contract clauses and mandatory segregation of garbage at source is said to be one of the primary reasons for the contractors to stay away from garbage tenders. …

Bengaluru Burning: The City’s Garbage Crisis is Raising a Stink
8 years, 11 months ago

Bengaluru Burning: The City’s Garbage Crisis is Raising a Stink

The Quint  

During the colonial era, divide and rule was the British policy and in 2015 Karnataka High court found that the solution to Bengaluru’s humongous garbage mess lies in the same. Households were instructed to segregate waste into dry, wet and hazardous and municipal corporation workers ie the BBMP was instructed not to collect mixed waste at any cost. Bengaluru Municipal …

My garbage is now my concern: Why Bengaluru is changing its attitude towards waste segregation
9 years, 1 month ago

My garbage is now my concern: Why Bengaluru is changing its attitude towards waste segregation

Firstpost  

The residents of Bengaluru have begun taking responsibility for their own garbage and reclaiming their city. And, life would have trudged along in its normal pace, if only BBMP could have continued to send the city’s garbage to landfill sites, keeping the powerful contractors and truckers’ lobby happy too. Citizen’s initiatives of several citizens’ forums, eco retailers, garbage service providers …

Will the BBMP wake up to the stink?
9 years, 1 month ago

Will the BBMP wake up to the stink?

Deccan Chronicle  

It is unfortunate that the city, which spends a whopping Rs 500 crore on solid waste management, fell several places to 38 in the Swachh Bharat rankings. In many areas people have no choice but to dump their garbage on the roads in the absence of proper door-to-door collection especially of the dry waste, which the BBMP is not doing …

BBMP officials lack commitment to solve garbage crisis: Mayor
10 years, 9 months ago

BBMP officials lack commitment to solve garbage crisis: Mayor

The Hindu  

Sathyanarayana has said officials of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike lack commitment to solve the garbage crisis. We request the residents there to cooperate with BBMP until then,” he said, adding that if waste management projects are taken up at the ward level, pressure on landfills would reduce drastically. Mr. Sathyanarayana also called upon B.PAC to join hands with the BBMP …

Garbage piles up across city
10 years, 9 months ago

Garbage piles up across city

The Hindu  

Even as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike officials claim that the garbage is being cleared across the city, in some places solid waste is piling up. Sathyanarayana said, in a release, that BBMP will take over garbage processing units at Mandur and contract of two private companies, which had taken responsibility to process waste, has been cancelled. He accused BBMP …

Citizen-Official Cooperation need of the hour
10 years, 9 months ago

Citizen-Official Cooperation need of the hour

The Hindu  

Around one-and-half years ago when the city was in the grip of a garbage crisis, segregation of waste at source was hailed as a “fail-proof” solution towards solving the problem. Solid waste management experts had, in fact, even joined hands with the BBMP and trained the pourakarmikas, garbage supervisors and sensitised the officials. The reduction of the quantum of waste …

Mandur residents intensify protest
10 years, 9 months ago

Mandur residents intensify protest

The Hindu  

Even as the district in-charge Minister R. Ramalinga Reddy and Mayor B.S. Sathyanarayana have said that residents living around Mandur landfills have consented to provide more time to Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike to dump garbage there, the protests at Mandur intensified on Tuesday. Additional Superintendent of Police, Bangalore Rural District, Abdul Ahad, told The Hindu that they have imposed prohibitory …

Mandur observes bandh, continues protest against garbage dumping
10 years, 9 months ago

Mandur observes bandh, continues protest against garbage dumping

The Hindu  

The garbage issue is threatening to spiral out of control. On Monday, the communities living around the landfills in Mandur continued their protest against the dumping of waste in their backyard. This, even as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike is all set to send garbage trucks to the Mandur landfills on Monday night. Meanwhile, after the communities locked the gates …

Residents stall dumping of additional garbage in Mandur
10 years, 10 months ago

Residents stall dumping of additional garbage in Mandur

The Hindu  

Residents of Mandur on Monday night prevented hundreds of garbage-laden trucks from entering the landfill by locking the gates. Their contention was that though the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike had assured them that 150 to 200 trucks of garbage would be dumped each day in the landfill, in the past few days more than the promised number of trucks of …

As garbage landfills run out of space, a pioneering solution from Bangalore
11 years, 2 months ago

As garbage landfills run out of space, a pioneering solution from Bangalore

Firstpost  

Daily Dump’s founder calls it the “world’s first waste shop”, stocking a range of products aimed at encouraging people to be proactive about household waste management: food composters and leaf composters; accessories and additives; books and educational materials. Don’t be fooled by the fact that Poonam Bir Kasturi, erstwhile industrial designer and Daily Dump’s founder, calls it the “world’s first …

Find land in all Assembly segments to set up waste units, High Court tells BBMP
11 years, 4 months ago

Find land in all Assembly segments to set up waste units, High Court tells BBMP

The Hindu  

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday asked the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Commissioner to identify a suitable place in each of the 28 Assembly constituencies in the city to set up municipal solid waste processing units. The Bench said that after its >recent visit to some waste collection centres and processing units, along with members of the solid waste management …

Prioritise garbage processing facilities: judge
11 years, 4 months ago

Prioritise garbage processing facilities: judge

The Hindu  

There aren’t enough processing facilities to handle garbage generated by the city’s one-crore population and priority must be given to creating these, averred N. Kumar, Judge of High Court of Karnataka. The Division Bench of the High Court comprising Justice Kumar and Justice B.V. Nagarathna, which is hearing several cases relating to garbage, visited a dry waste collection centre in …

Condemned to live with the city's stench
11 years, 7 months ago

Condemned to live with the city's stench

The Hindu  

The two-lane road is free of potholes. Narendra Babu, a farmer, said that former BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah had directed the officials to build a compound wall around the landfill to prevent the leachate from flowing into their fields. Rakesh Gowda, member of Mandur gram panchayat, said that Mr. Siddaiah had, on the last day as Commissioner, written to the communities …

Projects to clear BBMP landfills' accumulated waste
11 years, 7 months ago

Projects to clear BBMP landfills' accumulated waste

The Hindu  

When the garbage crisis reared its head in September last, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike drew up some ambitious plans, which remain on paper many months later. According to BBMP officials, around 23 lakh tonnes of waste has been accumulated in the BBMP’s landfills at Mavallipura, Mandur, Terra Firma, Bingipura and S. Lakshmipura. Of the many proposals received by the …

High Court tells BBMP not to open new garbage bids
11 years, 8 months ago

High Court tells BBMP not to open new garbage bids

The Hindu  

The Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike not to open bids invited for garbage collection and transportation in 40 packages across the city. The petition alleged that the BBMP’s tender notification does not specify the exact area, as directed by the High Court in its April 26, 2013 verdict in which it had issued guidelines …

It will be jitters for spitters and litterbugs in Karnataka
11 years, 8 months ago

It will be jitters for spitters and litterbugs in Karnataka

The Hindu  

Segregate the garbage you generate, or get set to pay fine. The State government has proposed to impose fine on households failing to segregate solid waste in the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike limits and other city corporations in the State. Bill tabled The government on Thursday tabled the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Bill, 2013, which also imposes penalty for littering, spitting, …

‘Dumpyard is bad, waste convertor will be worse’
11 years, 8 months ago

‘Dumpyard is bad, waste convertor will be worse’

The Hindu  

Garbage vehicles rumble in and tip their contents. The small, almost triangular plot of land that abuts the busy Dr. Rajkumar Road and Malleswaram 17th Cross Tank Bund Road, is a collection point for garbage lorries to pick up waste from. Manche Gowda said the garbage collection point was “adversely affecting the health of students and the ecology as the …

Health inspectors to monitor garbage in wards
11 years, 8 months ago

Health inspectors to monitor garbage in wards

The Hindu  

With the focus back on solid waste management what with the Zero Garbage project taking off in 12 wards, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike will now rope in the health inspectors to monitor the 198 wards in the city. That apart, the BBMP will involve residents’ welfare associations and non-governmental organisations to streamline the solid waste management system in 22 …

12 wards chase zero score
11 years, 8 months ago

12 wards chase zero score

The Hindu  

Hearing Transport Minister and district in-charge Ramalinga Reddy say that in 29 years of public life, he hadn’t seen garbage pose such a problem in the city, many Bangaloreans might be quick to agree. In its effort to address this garbage crisis, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike launched the Zero Garbage project in 12 wards here on Monday. The zero …

12 wards to go zero garbage from today
11 years, 8 months ago

12 wards to go zero garbage from today

The Hindu  

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 …

BBMP set to launch zero garbage model from July 1
11 years, 9 months ago

BBMP set to launch zero garbage model from July 1

The Hindu  

Ever since the garbage problem erupted in the city last August, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has been making noises about segregation of waste at source. The BBMP is now set to launch the zero garbage programme on a pilot basis in 30 wards across the city from July 1, BBMP commissioner M. Lakshminarayana, said at a talk organised by …

BBMP contemplating debris disposal policy
11 years, 10 months ago

BBMP contemplating debris disposal policy

The Hindu  

The menace of construction debris being dumped haphazardly on footpaths and roads continues unabated in the city. To put an end to this, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike is now contemplating a policy to effectively manage the disposal of construction debris. The official said civil society members suggested allotting a designated area where construction debris from the city could be …

A daunting task ahead
11 years, 11 months ago

A daunting task ahead

The Hindu  

The city was in the throes of a major garbage crisis not so long ago. While the situation may seem like it is under control, none of the solutions proposed by the solid waste management experts have been implemented, giving rise to fears that Bangalore could be engulfed in its own garbage anytime again. The crisis erupted in September last …

Soon you will be fined if you don’t segregate garbage
12 years ago

Soon you will be fined if you don’t segregate garbage

The Hindu  

The State government has decided to impose fine on households failing to segregate garbage in the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike limits. An amendment to the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act 1976 to this effect was cleared by the Cabinet on Tuesday at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar. According to senior officials in the BBMP, as per the amendment, …

Garbage: a weighty issue now
12 years, 1 month ago

Garbage: a weighty issue now

The Hindu  

As if solving the garbage crisis was not tough enough, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike is now facing another challenge: of correctly weighing the solid waste generated in the city. Following directions from the High Court of Karnataka, the BBMP has taken up the garbage weighing exercise in all earnestness from February 1. A senior official said that garbage weighing …

Waste: BBMP turns the heat on government offices
12 years, 1 month ago

Waste: BBMP turns the heat on government offices

The Hindu  

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has urged the government to direct all its departments to segregate and prudently manage the waste generated in their offices. BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah said that government offices are one of the major bulk generators of waste. Mohandas Pai, chairperson of Manipal Global Education, said that social entrepreneurs working in waste management must be encouraged, and …

‘BBMP committed to setting updry waste collection centres’
12 years, 1 month ago

‘BBMP committed to setting updry waste collection centres’

The Hindu  

As the week-long expo on garbage management, “Wake Up Clean Up Bangalore”, ended in Bangalore on Sunday, several children, college students and citizens were seen checking out “waste-to-wise” stalls, participating in sessions on waste management and deliberating on issues ranging from the rights of pourakarmikas to end-producer responsibility. Speaking at one of the sessions on the last day, BBMP Commissioner …

50 wards to be made zero-garbage areas
12 years, 1 month ago

50 wards to be made zero-garbage areas

The Hindu  

Fifty wards in the city will be selected for the pilot project on effective solid waste management practices and making them zero-garbage areas. The meeting that was attended by Gandhinagar MLA Dinesh Gundu Rao, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Commissioner Siddaiah, Board of Manipal Global Education Services chairperson T.V. The meeting proposed a venture capital to help small businesspersons and traders …

Mandur residents to be cajoled over deadline
12 years, 1 month ago

Mandur residents to be cajoled over deadline

The Hindu  

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike will need at least another three or four months to make alternative arrangements for garbage disposal, said Commissioner Siddaiah. With the deadline issued by communities living around the Mandur landfill coming to an end on Thursday, the Commissioner said the BBMP would request them to bear with the civic authority for a few more months. …

BBMP plea to extend deadline for garbage dumping in Mandur
12 years, 2 months ago

BBMP plea to extend deadline for garbage dumping in Mandur

The Hindu  

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike will urge the communities living around the Mandur landfill to allow dumping of garbage for some more time until alternate arrangements are made. This is not the first time that the BBMP has sought time from the communities to continue dumping in the landfills there.BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah told reporters here on Thursday that the civic …

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