Chintamani a BBMP dumping ground???

Just when Chintamani is seeing lot of progress in terms of infrastructure, just when the roads leading to Chintamani is seeing a tremendous change, just when the municipality of Chintamani is spreading the green patches in and around the town, this piece of news has sent a shock waves among Chintamaniacs. The BBMP's plans to dump the garbage in Chintamani taluk clearly shows there is an ulterior motive behind this idea. The BBMP garbage vehicles wants to use the newly built roads as an express-highway to their dumping grounds in Chintamani taluk. BBMP has failed to manage the garbage generated by the city and taking hasty decisions to wash their hands off.

We lodge our protest!!

Article in Deccan Herald

Nelamangala, Chintamani may be next dump yards

BANGALORE, August 25, 2012, DHNS
 Under fire for letting garbage swamp the City, the State government on Saturday swung into action to assist the BBMP to find a way out to clear the mess and identified alternate landfill sites at Nelamangala, Chintamani and some abandoned quarries as dump yards.

On a day when the garbage clearing was more visible across the City, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar convened a review meeting at which he directed Palike Commissioner Shankaralinge Gowda to clear the piled-up garbage within 24 hours.
Besides the commissioner, Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy, A Ravindra, former bureaucrat and advisor to chief minister on urban affairs, corporators, City MLAs and BBMP officials were present.
Although trucks were seen transporting garbage from the City, the problem is likely to be sorted out only by Monday.
Many truckloads were diverted to the Mandur landfill, even as the Mavallipura landfill remained closed. On the ban imposed by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) at this landfill, ecology and Environment Minister Sogadu Shivanna said the Board should have looked for alternatives like segregating garbage and utilising garbage for power production, before disallowing dumping of garbage in the designated dump yards.
Shettar later told mediapersons that he had asked the commissioner to initiate all possible measures to bail out the City from the mess. He also instructed the commissioner to initiate action against Ramky Enviro Engineers for violating contractual provisions, that resulted in garbage being strewn all over the City.
The Chief Minister said the government would speed up processing of files pertaining to possible locations for garbage disposal. A special meeting will be convened next week to accelerate the process of denotifying land for solid waste management.

The Link http://www.deccanherald.com/content/274288/nelamangala-chintamani-may-next-dump.html

In Pursuit of Nemmadi

      

People come here early in the morning to stand in front of the closed shutter. They themselves make a queue expecting that the doors could open any time. Among them are women, farmers, labors etc. They have come here away from their daily bread winning jobs. They already have stood in couple of queues before at the E-stamp center and few government offices. From past couple of days they have wandered in the courts for getting an affidavit.  They stand watchfully so no mischief monger jumps the queue. They look totally agitated. And to their dismay that door might never open for the days business at all. And if it opens only the lucky few gets the ticket to contentment, and the rest disperse, each sharing their agony with each other. The ticket is the 'Ration Card' and the center that issues them is called, ironically,  "Nemmadi Kendra" (Comforting Center). 

To obtain the 'Ration card' people have to get their income certificate, birth certificate on an E-stamp. After obtaining the application and the E-stamp at the Chintamani's  only center on Double Road, they have to get the affidavit from an  attorney. By this time they already have spent a few hundreds from their pockets and the system consuming their energy. Then they have to come to the "Nemmadi Kendra" in N.R.Extension hoping that their documents are accepted and acknowledged. The center doesn't even have a name board and has not displayed it's working hours. The frustration triggers to frequent quarrels on the streets, like you see in the video. To light up the people's lives , the government is burning the other end of the candle.