The Hindu 30.08.2013
Segregate waste or get ready to pay penalty
Have you not been segregating your waste at home? It is
time you bucked up as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahangara Palike (BBMP) has
authorised the Assistant Executive Engineer or Assistant Engineer of the
respective wards to levy and collect penalty for effective solid waste
management.
A notification to this effect was issued
by the BBMP Commissioner here on Thursday. The notification states that
officials are vested with the responsibility to levy fine under the
amended Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976. A public notice has
been issued by the BBMP fixing the fine amount for various offences such
as spitting, not segregating waste and allowing filth to flow on to the
streets.
The public notice stated that failure to
segregate dry waste from wet waste will attract a fine of Rs. 100 for
residents and Rs. 500 for bulk generators. The penalty for the second
time offence by residents would be Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 for bulk
generators.
Failure to segregate and hand over garden
waste, sanitary waste, biomedical waste would attract a fine of Rs. 500
for the first time and Rs. 1,000 for the second and subsequent
offences.
If you dump building waste irregularly, you
are likely to be penalised Rs. 1,000 for the first offence and Rs.
5,000 for the second and subsequent offences.
Irregular
deposit of rubbish or filth or any solid waste could cost you Rs. 100
and the subsequent times you would be fined Rs. 200.
The
civic body has also decided to levy fine for littering, spitting,
urinating and depositing carcasses of animals in an improper place.
