Deccan Herald 05.08.2013
Committed hands for a cleaner City
Officials from the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara
Palike (BBMP), along with a group of volunteers, took part in a
cleanliness drive held at Gangadhar Chetty Road on Sunday.
The
drive, organised in continuance with the BBMP’s ‘Wake up Clean up’
initiative, saw over 150 volunteers, that included Palike officials,
pourakarmikas, Army officials from Madras Engineering Group (MEG)
Centre, and Bescom officials actively taking part.
The green
drive was organised by The Green Lungi, a non-governmental organisation
in partnership with BBMP, the Army MEG Centre, Bescom and Bangalore
traffic police. Garbage was picked from the surrounding areas and loaded
onto BBMP trucks. A 300-metre stretch of road was cleaned by the
volunteers. They also painted the edges of sidewalks as part of the
initiative.
Road will be functional soon, Palike Commissioner M Lakshminarayana, who
was present during the drive, said, “The shoulder drains on the
footpaths will be declogged”. Meanwhile, the Army personnel made a
commitment towards making their campus waste-free.
Elaborating on
the issue, Colonel Surendran M K, said, “We are already following the
waste segregation system inside our campus. However, people who come to
visit Halasuru Lake and construction work in the vicinity dirty the road
and lake surroundings by dumping the waste, including construction
debris. This needs to be looked into by the Palike.”