Bangalore labelled with a new name: Garbage city
A dire straits, which has been lurking for quite a long time in Bangalore, has caught the attention of both the city’s administration department (BBMP) and the state government. The garbage crisis, which has crippled the garden city to a significant degree, is one of the rising challenges since the scale and magnitude of the crisis is too overwhelming to get resolved in a flash.
The local authorities have been on the docket for waste management, to cast away the whopping amounts of garbage generated by the city. A threat, which the city completely overlooked, rose to alarming heights, when piles of waste accumulated around the cosmopolitan city tagged it as an urban garbage center.
Widespread waste
One look at the streets of the city will testify the fact that the vast amounts of garbage scattered across the city is a rising concern. For Bangalore’s high-tech gadget conscious IT professionals, hygiene and clean localities are definitely de rigeur and something to aspire for. With open drains and heaps of scattered waste, the garden city is heading for a fall displaying the sheer incompetence of the civic body.
The rapid growth of the city is goofed up with contaminated drains, choked lanes and solid waste (comprising of ash, garbages and rubbish), marking the failure of dustless refuse collectors, mechanical transport and house to house collectors.
Amount of waste
Around 5000 tonnes of garbage is generated by the city on a daily basis, the majority of which is deported to dumping yards stationed at the city outskirts in Madur, Mavallipura and Doddaballapur. Consequently, communities and villages near the landfills of Mavallipura have succumbed to a number of diseases due to the poisoning of the environment. At present, there are as many as 15 dry waste segregation units in the city to comply with 198 units.
Steps Taken
In a move to make a go of it, a civil society program- Wake Up Clean Up, has been launched in sync with BBMP for 22 wards. Named as Kasa Mukta, the projects aims at liberalization of waste, and carve out a garbage-free city in the next few months.
Depending on the success of the project, the initiative will be find its presence in 176 wards across the city, with the aid of the fund (100 crore) allotted by the government. The allotted fund will enable the BBMP to install around 16 organic converters as an attempt to deal with the waste problem.
