City littered with festival garbage
Monday, 13 September 2010 10:24
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The Deccan Herald 13.09.2010
City littered with festival garbage
Bangalore, Sept 12, DH News Service:
With the conclusion of successive festivals and people visiting parks in droves after celebrations, the understaffed civic agencies now face a gargantuan task - cleaning the littered public places.
The Lalbagh authorities have geared up in their own way to tackle the post-festival garbage, both in terms of manpower and infrastructure. Apart from 150 additional dustbins, 50 sweepers and 20 homeguards have been deputed on these days.
"About 12,000 people visit Lalbagh post festival and there was more crowd this time as it was Sunday. Majority of the crowd brings food inside the premises and litter the place with plastic bags and paper plates. We try and keep the place clean as much as possible," Lalbagh Horticulture Deputy Director, M Jagadish told Deccan Herald. The Botanical Garden, with an enclosure and restricted entry through two gates can manage garbage with comparative ease.
The Cubbon Park authorities too will deploy more sweepers and place as many as 200 additional dustbins to maintain cleanliness. Deputy Director of Cubbon Park K G Jaidev admitted that garbage menace has become a challenge after festival days in spite of deputing more manpower.
"There were even some clashes while educating people on disposing garbage in dustbins,” he said.
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has estimated the garbage generation to go up by at least 50 per cent in the wake of festivities.
The present estimate of garbage generation is 3,000 tonnes per day. The garbage collection contractors have been instructed to press more manpower for service. Two trucks have been stationed at each of the four spots designated for immersion of Ganesha idols. "We need at least two days to clear the City of the extra garbage due to the festive season," a Palike officer said.
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Another garbage dumping site raises stink
Monday, 13 September 2010 06:54
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The Times of India 13.09.2010
Another garbage dumping site raises stink
PANCHKULA: The civic body came into existence seven years ago. But till date, there is one problem that neither Panchkula administration nor municipal corporation or HUDA has been able to solve ? finding an authorized dumping ground.
After trying many a place, authorities have turned an open space near sectors 23 and 25 into an illegal dumping ground. But it has annoyed the area residents, who have been raising their voice against it.
Earlier, MC and HUDA employees used to dump garbage in open spaces in the city and sometimes on roads. This had led to protest by various residents? welfare associations,
following which HUDA and MC zeroed in on a vacant plot in Sector 23, but it too roiled residents of sectors 23 to 28.
Then in 2009, district administration and MC identified a site in Bunga village, near Madanpura. But when authorities visited the place, they found it ?not large enough?. Early this year, the administration had identified a place near Kot-Billa village on National Highway 73. But as it was located on the banks of a seasonal rivulet, they rejected the site in view of environmental and health hazard it would lead to, sources said.
Last week, the administration had directed MC and HUDA to dump garbage at some distance from the present illegal dumping ground. They were told to dig pits and level these after dumping garbage. But residents have been complaining that drivers of garbage collection vehicles were not following the directions.
SS Gill, president of Joint Action Committee of sectors 23 to 28, said, ? Haryana Pollution Control Board had also issued notice to district administration and MC not to dump garbage in open. We have met many Panchkula as well as Haryana government officers, but to no avail.?
SS Negi, a resident of Sector 23, said the foul smell has made it difficult for asthma patients.
Panchkula deputy commissioner Ashima Brar said she had directed the administration officials as well as HUDA and MC to identify an alternative site. ?Officials are working on it ... we hope the administration will soon find a solution. A garbage treatment plant in Jhuriwala is under construction. It comes under HUDA. After its completion, half of the problem will be solved,? she added.
?No Open Place?
The vacant land spread over 10 acre is being used by Haryana development authority and municipal corporation to dump garbage for over five years. MC and HUDA maintained that they have no open place for the purpose .
Four children ‘drown’ in pit at solid waste management plant site
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 10:57
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Indian Express 31.08.2010
Four children ‘drown’ in pit at solid waste management plant site
Express News Service Tags : accident, drown case Posted: Tue Aug 31 2010, 06:43 hrs Lucknow: Four children in the age group of 8 to 11 drowned after they allegedly fell into a pit filled with rainwater at the under-construction site of a solid waste management plant in Sasanigate area of Aligarh district on Monday.
According to Aligarh ASP, Man Singh Chauhan, the family members of the victims have refused to get the postmortem examination conducted. No complaint was lodged into the matter too, he said. The Station Officer (SO) of Sasanigate police station, Manoj Kumar Sharma, said that Arshad (11), his sister Aanam (10) and their neighbours, Shoeb and Tabassum (both of 8 years), all of Bhujpura locality, were last seen playing in the water at the municipal corporation construction site at noon.
The family members of the kids started searching for them when they did not return till late in the noon. The locals later searched the pits around the construction site and found the bodies of the four kids there, the SO said.
The locals created a ruckus demanding a compensation for the next to the kin of the deceased. The families of each of the deceased were handed over Rs 10,000 each and the District Magistrate (DM), Ravindra Nayak, assured more compensation.
The A2Z Infrastructure Pvt Ltd is developing the municipal solid waste management plant over a land of 25 acres provided by the Aligarh Municipal Corporation (AMC). The company authorities, however, have raised doubts if the kids drowned in the pit at the construction site.
When inquired about the deaths, the AMC Municipal Commissioner, Mahak Singh, said: “The A2Z group is developing the solid waste plant in an area of 25 acres provided by us. There are several pond-like hollow spaces full of water these days. The kids probably had gone to catch fish from the place and fell into one of pits and drowned.” When asked about the compensation, Singh replied, “The company is not responsible for the deaths.” Meanwhile, the Joint MD of A2Z, Rajnish Mehra, said, “The pit in which the kids reportedly fell and drowned has been measured by our staff and it is found to be 3 ft deep only. Even the kids between 8 and 11 years cannot drown in a ditch of 3 ft. Besides, the family members refused to get the postmortem conducted. We have given a complaint to the Aligarh police demanding to get the postmortem conducted to know the exact cause of the deaths.”
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