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.
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.”
