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Call to close BBMP’s waste management unit

BANGALORE: Various organisations and elected representatives from Bangalore Rural district on Monday urged the State Government to close the solid waste management plant recently set up by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), with private partnership, at Gundlahalli village in Doddaballapur taluk as the plant was affecting the environment as well as the health of residents of 30 villages. The Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS), the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike and other organisations along with gram panchayat and taluk panchayat members from Doddaballapur taluk have jointly floated Terra Firma Horata Samithi to seek the closure of the plant run by Terra Firma Biotechnologies Ltd. (TFBL) to produce vermin-compost and biogas from solid waste.

Addressing presspersons here, samithi leader and KPRS Bangalore district secretary R. Chandra Tejaswi said that around 150 truckloads of industrial, hospital and chemical waste and other garbage collected from different parts of Bangalore was being dumped at Gundlahalli village every day. “The waste comprises foetuses and animal carcasses. The garbage dumps have become breeding ground for mosquitoes and flies. The stench from the dumps has made life miserable for people of Gundalahalli and adjoining villages. The waterlines are getting contaminated,” Mr. Tejaswi said.

The samithi leaders threatened to launch an agitation if the Government failed to shutdown the plant.

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