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Court seeks details about permission to nursing homes

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday took to task the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) for the rise in the number of nursing homes in residential areas in the city and directed the BMP to place before it all materials based on which it sanctioned or permitted nursing homes to come up.

Justice Rammohan Reddy also directed the BMP and the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to place before the court the materials and schemes formulated by them for the discharge of effluents into the drains and the process adopted to clean them.

Justice Reddy passed this order on a petition relating to the demand and collection of property tax of a nursing home in Jayamahal Extension, Bangalore.

The judge said it was not known why the BMP had issued licence to the petitioner to operate a maternity home in a residential locality, which, he said, was discharging effluents together with chemicals. He said it was not known as to what method or methodology was being adopted in treating such effluents. He said it was common knowledge that the nursing homes were discharging chemicals into the drainage system.

Justice Reddy posted the case to January second week.

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