The Hindu 06.03.2013
Mandur accepts city’s waste, gets water in return
With the communities living around the Mandur landfill
agreeing to allow the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to
continue dumping of garbage, the civic body is taking action to meet the
assurances made to the citizens by taking up various infrastructure
development activities.
According to a press note
here on Monday, the BBMP released Rs. 1 crore for providing drinking
water facilities and improved road infrastructure in Mandur and
Bidarahalli gram panchayat limits.
This was following a meeting with Minister for Health and Family Welfare Aravind Limbavali.
The
release said the BBMP was paying for water to be supplied through
tankers to the villages since September 2012. The meeting decided that
every day, 61 water tankers would be sent to villages coming under the
two gram panchayats.
Meanwhile, BBMP Commissioner
Siddaiah directed the Chief Accounts Officer to release funds and clear
two months’ pending bills of civic contractors. The remaining bills
would be cleared in phases, he assured the contractors.
The
civil contractors have been giving the BBMP a taste of its own medicine
by beating drums in the head office. The civil contractors claim the
BBMP owes them Rs. 1,200 crore.