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Garbage dumping causing damage to wildlife: DCF

Staff Reporter

Bangalore: The Deputy Conservator of Forest (DCF), Bannerghatta National Park, has sent a letter to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Commissioner alleging that its trucks are dumping garbage close to the park and threatening the wildlife.

“Although the dumping site is located outside the Bannerghatta National Park (about 50 metres from the boundary), it is causing damage to the wildlife and habitat,” says the letter sent on July 19.

The site in question adjoins Survey No. 2 of Bannerghatta village near Kalkere State Forest of the national park.

Vanashree Vipin Singh, DCF, said that as there had been no attempt made to contain the garbage, which is being dumped in an open site, there is a threat of it getting dispersed to the adjoining areas and into the park premises.

The BBMP trucks, she noted, were plying on the road passing through the national park.

BBMP Commissioner S. Subramanya told The Hindu that the Forest Department was at liberty “to take action if the dumping was found to be unlawful.” The site mentioned was one of nine areas allotted by the Government to the BBMP to dump garbage, he added.

The DCF’s letter has also been submitted to the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board.

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