The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday lashed out at the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara
Palike (BBMP) for the piling up of garbage in the City and directed the civic agency to file a status report on garbage segregation on November 6, 2012.

Hearing two public interest litigations, by Kavitha Shankar, a resident and G R Mohan, a City-based advocate and a party-in-person, ­the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice B V Nagarathna, expressed dissatisfaction over functioning of the BBMP. It also heard an appeal by some garbage contractors who were unable to participate in the new bidding stating that sufficient time was not allotted for the tender process by the Palike.

Corporation blames contractor; seeks explanation on fire accident

Residents of Konavaikalpalayam, Mahalingapuram, N.G.R. Nagar, Sakthi Eswaran Nagar and L.G. Nagar blocked the Chettipalayam Road on Monday, demanding closure of the Coimbatore Corporation’s dump yard in Vellalore. As the Coimbatore Corporation officials’ and police’s efforts to pacify the crowd failed and traffic remained blocked, the police removed around 253 protestors, including 108 women.

Protesters’ forum at Vadavathur to continue agitations

In the midst of yet another controversy over the dumping yard at Vadavathur, the authorities of the Kottayam municipality have sought to clarify that no decision has been made to adopt the landfill method for waste disposal. Instead, the method of capping would be made use of in order to check any contamination from the waste accumulated at the yard.

New Delhi: Soon, Tihar Jail will produce its own electricity.

Urban India sitting on a ticking garbage bomb

The powerful garbage contractors in the City are out to sabotage the BBMP’s reforms for garbage disposal, Palike officials say.

Officials say the contractors, who had so far had a stranglehold over the lucrative business of garbage disposal, are worried over the growing awareness among citizens about the segregation-at-source and other initiatives of the BBMP to recycle waste within the City, and are out to defeat the reforms. Some of them are dumping waste lifted from one part of the City to other prominent places. On Wednesday night, a truckload of filth was dumped near the St Marks Cathedral on MG Road, leaving the church authorities furious.

The second day of the new system of garbage disposal in the City saw the segregation at source drive go for a toss in many areas.

Garbage lies uncleared on Katriguppe main road in Bangalore on Tuesday. Garbage piled up in bulk in many places including some posh areas such as Shanthi Nagar, JP Nagar, Banashankari and Basavanagudi. Areas like Shivajinagar, Chamarajpet, Yarab Nagar, Kurubarahalli, Yelachenahalli and Ittamadu were in a utter mess. The situation all over the City sent across a single message - that the segregation message had not gone across to the citizens. At Shivajinagar, a woman denied having heard of segregation.

Residents oppose move, set to block roads from Oct 2

As Bangaloreans gear up to segregate their garbage at source, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is considering composting wet waste in Mandur, the village used tili recently as a landfill for the City’s unsegregated garbage. But the BBMP is still not sure of the Mandur option because of the staunch opposition from the village’s residents, given their unsavoury tryst with trash till now. However, BBMP officials have been unable to identify any other sites for composting thus far.

It took more than a decade and crores of rupees (approximately

Rs 350 crore a year) for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to create the highly toxic garbage hillocks at Mavallipura and Mandur. Now the civic agency will spend another decade and crores of rupees to undo the damage. As part of its 'social responsibility,' the Palike will undertake the Herculean task of detoxifying Mandur and Mavallipura landfills which bore the brunt of City's unprecedented growth in the last two decades. It will disintegrate the garbage mounds oozing leachate and emanating unbearable stench, by biomining and deodorising them.

A proposal to classify river courses in the State into various eco-zones for their conservation and management is getting ready.

This forms part of the guidelines prepared by the Department of Environment and Climate Change for the conservation and protection of river systems in the State. The eco-zones, it is proposed, will be demarcated based on the climatic and geomorphic features of each course, the extent of its degradation, and the scope for its restoration. Permissible activities will be notified for each zone.