ONTHESPOT - DUM DUM MARKET

The huge mound of garbage adjoining Dum Dum Co-operative New Market on Dum Dum Road is a major hindrance for traffic and pedestrian movement but talk of a solution only triggers a blame game between the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) and local shopkeepers.

Shivansh Chandak spends his weekend mornings removing trash from the neighbourhood greens. He is not a ragpicker but a five-year-old student of La Martiniere for Boys. For company he has his 10-year-old brother Devansh. Both are part of a group of children in south Kolkata who have taken up a task which ideally should have been tackled by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).

Pune You are playing with our lives, villagers tell PMC, district officials, MPCB

By Poornima Nataraj, Bangalore, DH News Service:
Children in Malleswaram are using their summer vacation to spread awareness on garbage management in their neighbourhood. These children in the age groups of 6 to 16 have been making door to door visits educating their neighbours about how segregated garbage can be recycled.

CHENNAI: With the number of people visiting the Marina beach increasing considerably on account of summer vacation, the place presents a picture of an urbanised blend of forced cleanliness and reckless pollution.

Colombo

Shillong: The Shillong Cantonment Board (SCB) and the Syiem of Mylliem will have to answer to state government for contributing to accumulated polluting garbage in Iew Mawlong- Mawlonghat in the heart of Shillong.

The Municipal Corporation has issued 30-day show-cause notice to Jai Prakash Associates here today for failing to make the garbage processing plant operational within the prescribed time schedule under the provision of Clause 5.1 of the implementation agreement.

Of the thirteen municipal councils, 11 municipalities have finally acquired sites for setting up facilities for treatment of garbage. Valpoi and Mapusa which have not been able acquire sites within the stipulated time need to complete the task of acquiring sites and setting up facilities for treating garbage within next six months.

The sanitation week concluded here on Tuesday with a special drive for cleaning all wards of the panchayat. Members of the Mahila Mandal of Anoh Gram Panchayat in this subdivision along with panchayat representatives participated in the drive.