The Subramanyapura lake in Uttarahalli, lying in a state of abject neglect for nearly five years, will get a fresh lease of life, with the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) set to take up rejuvenation work in association with other civic agencies and government bodies.

The decision follows BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah’s visit to the lake following reports in Deccan Herald about illegal dumping of debris and garbage into the water body, thus reducing its extent from 18.2 acre to 11.3 acre.

The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday directed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike to constitute committees in each ward of the City to monitor garbage disposal, before January 21.

The direction was issued in a public interest litigation filed by G R Mohan, a city-based advocate and others alleging failure on the part of the Palike in disposing garbage generated in the City.

The High Court on Friday directed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to furnish statistics of garbage cess collection over the last ten years. This followed a submission by the Palike that it was spending 70 per cent more money than it collected as cess.

Counsel for the Palike submitted before the Court: “If the cess collected is Rs 100 crore, we are spending Rs 350 crore to clear garbage from the City.” Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the new tender notification issued by the BBMP for the collection and transport of municipal waste, the Division Bench comprising Justices N Kumar and B V Nagarathna directed the BBMP to give details on the cess collected from the public for collecting and transporting garbage.

The Mandur landfill site is set to shut down on February 1 depriving Bangaloreans of a major rubbish dumping yard. But a majority of the citizens are yet to grasp the concept of segregation of waste at source and implement it, thus potentially paving the way for another garbage crisis in the City.

Barring a few apartments, not many people have adhered to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s grandiose plans to keep the City clean and reduce the burden on landfills.

Thirty landfill sites have closed in the past year, reflecting the decreasing amount of waste being disposed of in this way in the UK.

Chief Officer Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Matanat Ali Khan, with the collaboration of all towns, has established a Controlling Cell for improvement of cleanliness condition in the city w

Shillong: Meghalaya has tried not once or twice but repeatedly to ban plastic carry bags but the effort has failed miserably. As a result every drain, stream and river are filled with plastic bags and plastic packages which contain a variety of junk food such as potato chips which are laden with trans-fat but which the younger generation is addicted to.

Environmentalists despair about the manner in which drains get choked and rivers are polluted by garbage which comprises mainly plastic bags and packages of different shapes and sizes. When these are clogged over a long period they emit methane gas which scientists say poisons the environment.

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike will finally do away with the three per cent garbage cess on property tax collected from bulk generators in the City.

“There is no point in imposing garbage cess when we have asked the bulk generators to dispose their waste. We will withdraw the cess,” BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah told Deccan Herald. The cess had become a bone of contention between the bulk generators and the civic agency. The High Court had questioned the Palike on the rationale of collecting the cess from bulk generators when they have been asked to segregate and dispose their garbage.

PANJIM: Directorate of Panchayats has amended a previous notification to allow the state government to release grants to panchayats for garbage handling and management.

Even as waste collection has been intensified in Vellore city, Corporation officials are clueless about how to dispose piles of garbage generated every day.