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Mound of filth in front of an abode of art

Special Correspondent

— Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

UNHYGIENIC: Garbage left uncleared in front of Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat in Bangalore on Sunday.

BANGALORE: Imagine the city’s finest art and sculpture on the one side and filth and stench on the other side separated only by a parking lot.

Take a walk into the Chitrakala Parishat and you will find this paradoxical situation there.

The parishat, which has Hotel Grand Ashok, the Chief Minister’s official home and the government guesthouse Kumara Krupa as its distinguished neighbours, has in its front yard a big mound of garbage from where emanates a foul smell causing inconvenience to visitors.

According to the parishat sources, the mound of filth is always there. They do not know who has to lift it. Sometimes the garbage is not cleared for weeks. It is generated by the activities in the parishat.

One can see plastic cups and plates with food wastes, cardboards and other material being dumped there.

The food wastes are dumped there after every programme. On many occasions, dogs rummage through the garbage making the front yard of the parishat ugly and unhygienic.

The parishat sources said that the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike was supposed to clear it but it was not doing it regularly.

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