Posts : Pollution

Prakash Belwadi on Bangalore Garbage crisis

psaram42 - 8-SEP-2012

 

Garbage Cities Garbage Mismanagement

psaram42 - 23-AUG-2012

Bangalore has got the Tag of a "Garbage city" recently due to gross mismanagement of Garbage collection and disposal.

An NGO meet with BBMP officials on Lakes revival and maintenance

psaram42 - 6-AUG-2012

BBMP is contemplating to establish a structured system of high order involving citizens of Bangalore. It is a laudable claim indeed made by Chief conservator of Forests Sri Brijesh kumar of BBMP. To days TOI report has covered in detail the event held at IIM Bangalore on August 5th 2012.  About 125 odd representatives of 21 lake committees have taken part. 

Let's do it in our back-yard (LDIIOBY)!

murali772 - 2-JUL-2012

When it comes to the latest Garbage City tag, there was indeed a PIL filed. Fighting the negative tag was Neeraj Mishra, a resident of Indiranagar. Two years ago, Neeraj filed a PIL in the High Court of Karnataka when he found that garbage near his house had rented the place for free and the BBMP was letting it flourish.

Stink-free Bangalore?

murali772 - 20-JUN-2012

The projects to clean up storm water valleys had been taken up under Environment Action Plan (EAP) Part A in 2004, but it was taken up again in 2010 as there was no progress.

Plastics recycling collection centers in Bangalore

psaram42 - 29-DEC-2011

 

Hoardings, Banners and Visual Pollution...

mp - 21-AUG-2011

For the past 2 months banners such as the ones below have been very conspicuous by their size and nuisance value all over JP Nagar and parts of Jayanagar. I am sure other localities have their equivalents.

Refurbishing the BDA Park @ Ward-58 New Tipp Sandra

psaram42 - 27-JUL-2011

 

Our MLA Shree Raghu has supported many maintenance works like

Lake-a-thon

United Way Bengaluru - 7-JUL-2011

Bangalore has been experiencing an alarming decrease in the number of lakes, down from 937 in 1937 to only 212 lakes in 2010. Historically, these lakes have been the main source of water for citizens.

Bangalore too high on road air pollution?

silkboard - 2-JUN-2011

Delhi and Ahmedabad have already done it. Chandigarh too I beleive. But going purely by observations (can't find any published information from RTO), 40-50% of autorickshaws still seemed to be on petrol.