RED ALERT!!! --> BBMP Garbage Unit at Banashankari 6th Stage

[sreekbda]

BBMP has started work on a Garbage Processing Unit right in the heart of BSK-6. This layout has 11 Blocks and the unit is planned in 5th Block.

BSK-6 Stage RWA has called for an emergency meeting this Sunday at 11:00 AM at Lakshmi Temple, 8th Block. Pls attend without fail if you are a resident or a site owner.

Media Coverage: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140805/n ... nashankari

Location of CA Site on wikimapia: http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=12.87 ... 5&z=17&m=b

Facebook site for more information and latest updates: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bsk6stage/

[smsbgk]

Hi sreekbda,

Thanks for the info.
We visited that area today. The police there were telling it will be operational by this December end.
Unless there is heavy protest there is no chance of stopping that work it seems.
We should have good count of people to protest against this. Seems the land is given after approval from MLA of that area.

Regards
sms

[ragh_avan]

well Bangalore city cannot generate garbage and let some poor village outside Bangalore to absorb all the garbage. The problem is we all generate waste but when it comes to owning it up we all step back. either do segregation or live with this problem.

[sreekbda]

ragh_avan, i would have appreciated what you said if the dump was in front of your house and you still said it.


here are a lot of areas around Bangalore where this dump can be accommodated. Not in a residential area. Are international dumps located next to residential areas?

[sreekbda]

Yes. MLA is to be blamed.

http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalor ... 093082.cms

[ragh_avan]

sreekbda

If the dump is in front of my house and treating garbage which I creat I will not be complaining.

and pray tell me what is not a residential area in a country that is teeming with 1.2 billion population? every inch other than forests is either cultivated or habitated. Do u think mandur where they dumped earlier did not have human population? Or do you think people staying in mandur were not humans because they could not afford costly BDA sites and were simple villagers who had their farm land next to the dump yard.

maybe we can ask the government to dump inside bannerghatta park. And hell to wildlife.

[msn1270]

sreekbda

Bangalore is growing in adhoc, unscientific & haphazardly without any responsibility or direction or even without basic necessities.
Our own greediness(might be someone's necessity) swallowing all villages, agricultural lands, Lakes and Ponds. There is nothing
called, wasteland or no-man's land around Bangalore even if we go 50 KMs away. What we may see as some vacant land might be
someone agricultural land or Cattle Feeding Land(Gomaala) or some private properties. We can't put blame on BBMP or State Govt.
They are also run by one among us. Unless we become responsible, we can't pass the buck on to someone else.

We shouldn't destroy the life of villagers (they are one among us and in fact they are our life lines who supplies us the agricultural,
vegetable, dairy and farm products daily) & their innocent cattle's. At least we feel, if we throw money, we get everything like
food, or water or electricity. Do they have such capability or Why should the villagers sacrifice their basic necessities & everything
for our irresponsible actions. Already the garbage dumped at Mavalli is going to suffer the life of at least next 2-3 generations. They
got awaken 2 years back and stopped it. Now Mandur villagers took the same bold step. Tomorrow..... another village. So there is
no solution for this crisis, unless we plan to put an end to our mistakes. It has to be a collective decision and action plan of the society.

All we think and do is "only my house must be neat and clean and I don't care about the street or surround my area".

[sreekbda]

We don't have villages everywhere. There is a lot of govt owned land around bangalore where there is no habitation for a couple of km of radius. Especially on kanakapura road, there is a lot of open space after nice road junction. One can visit and see for yourself.

If you are owner of a site (and everyone knows how difficult it is to own a piece of land in Bangalore nowadays) and you find out that all the garbage of your constituency will be dumped right in front of your house then obviously you are going to be worked up.

There needs to be some scientific way of determining a dump location. Nothing of that sort has been done. Looks like adhoc picking of a location.

[msn1270]

sreekbda,

A village may have few 100 houses. But the land owned by those villagers may spread across several Kilometers away from their villages either in the form of Dry land or with irrigation facility. Just b'cos we feel some land looks vacant, necessarily might not belongs to Govt other than the burial grounds, Gomaala, temple lands and other
notified lands like kharab lands, forest lands...etc which cannot be used for this kind of dumping activities. Neither BBMP nor State Govt made plans in advance at least 20 years back anticipating this situation, as they did not had any idea about the sudden growth of the city and the amount of Waste currently its generating.

The so called vacant lands we see around Kanakapura Road after NICE Road, currently may not be used for agriculture, but those lands would have already sold to
some developers and some big guys - who will be waiting for right time to reap their returns. The development of layouts on that stretch has already gone beyond kanakapura in the name of Farm lands apart from residential lands. Even Big brands like Prestige, Brigade, nitesth...etc all have land banks in that stretch. Also Kanakapura zone is commercially busy in (illegal) extracting Filter Sand and Granite Quarrying business which has huge political back up. Obviously, they will not allow to loose their bread and butter so easily.

In all developed countries, Recycling is the method they used to filter out(reduce) almost 80% of their dry wastes. But in our situation, we throw anything and everything without thinking about recycling.

[biddappa_c_b]

Guys, do u know anyone in TV9? We should approach them to escalate the same.