Deccan Herald 26.04.2013
HC seeks report from Palike on garbage
The High Court of Karnataka on Friday directed
the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike to submit a report on the steps
taken to tackle garbage crisis in the City.
During the hearing of a batch of petitions on garbage menace in Bangalore, the Division Bench comprising Justices
N
Kumar and B V Nagarathna observed that mere acquisition of land to dump
garbage would not solve the problem. “The Palike will have to take up
steps to set up waste processing units for scientific disposal of
garbage,” the Bench noted.
The Court directed the Palike
commissioner to place before it, the reports of a panel headed by him
and that of the technical committee headed chief engineer, before May
27.
The counsel for the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board
submitted the report on the status of processing and disposal of
municipal solid waste. The Board has found unscientific disposal of
solid waste at the landfills and processing units of the Palike.
Notice issued
The
Division Bench comprising Chief Justice D H Waghela and Justice
B V Nagarathna has issued notices to the State government and the
department of Women and Child Development for not providing basic
facilities to anganwadi centres and its workers. The Court had taken up a
suo motu public interest litigation following media reports about poor
infrastructure at anganwadi centres. The Bench has also directed the
government to file its objections to the petition.
CA site
The
High Court has issued notice to the Bangalore Development Authority in a
petition alleging allotment of a civic amenity (CA) site to a private
company. Ramarao Layout Residents’ Association has approached the court
accusing the BDA of violating the rules while allotting a CA site to a
Laghu Udyog Bharati, a Maharashtra-based company. The petitioner has
alleged that the firm located on a CA site was causing problems to the
residents in the vicinity.
Time extended
The High Court
has granted another four months to the Justice B Padmaraj Committee
probing into irregularities in allotment of ‘G’ category sites by the
Bangalore Development Authority during the period 2006 to 2009. The
Division Bench headed by Justice K L Manjunath passed the order on an
application filed by the committee seeking more time to submit its
report. The Court had constituted the committee following a public
interest litigation filed by Vasudev, alleging irregularities in
allotment of ‘G’ category sites. The committee was to submit its report
by April-end.