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Workshop On Access To Safe Water: Challenges And Opportunities In Mavallipura

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International Day of Action for Rivers 14 March 2013 ; Time: 10.00 AM to 1.00 PM ; Venue: FRLHT Seminar Hall, Pathanjali block, Mavallipura, Bangalore Downloads: Report of workshop on Access to Safe Water in Mavallipura: ESG, KSCST & DSS   Environment Support Group in coordination with Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology and Dalit Sangharsh Samiti organised a workshop on “Access to safe Water: Challenges and Opportunities” on 14.3. 2013 at Mavallipura, on

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Sign Up To Make Bangalore A Waste-less City

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Oppose landfilling ‘waste’ 31 October 2012 Downloads: Make Bangalore a Waste-less City CM’s instructions to BBMP on SWM for Bangalore Sign up to make Bangalore a Waste-less City (Prefer going straight to the Petition? Click here: http://tinyurl.com/chkc9mh) It is a disturbing indicator of the disconnect between people of Bangalore and civic agencies that an article on the prevailing garbage (mis)management in New York Times does more to alert authorities to a crisis, than does protests

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Mayor Of Bangalore Dumps Mavallipura Landfill

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Joint Committee set up to monitor compliance and compensation issues 29 August 2012 Downloads: Mavallipura Landfill Closed for Good: Bangalore Mayor Sustainable Solid Waste Management Principles for Bangalore In a momentous decision the Hon’ble Mayor of Bangalore Shri. Venkatesh Murthy accepted the demand of communities impacted by the municipal solid waste management land fill operated by M/s Ramky at Mavallipura, that the landfill closure order issued by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) would

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KSPCB Shuts Down Ramky’s SWM Landfill At Mavallipura

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Ramky and BBMP to clean up landfill in 3 months or face criminal prosecution 12 July 2012 Downloads: KSPCB Closure Order Mavallipura Landfill 11 July 2012 ESG DSS Release Mavallipura Landfill Closure 12 July 2012 MoEF_Supports_KSCPB_Action_170712 In a landmark decision, Mr. A. S. Sadashivaiah, IFS (Retd.), Chairman, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, has directed the Commissioner of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP, Bangalore’s city corporation) and the private operator of the city’s major landfill,

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2 More Die, Yet Few Care For Mavallipura’s People Dumped By Bangalore’s Waste

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1,000 tonnes of waste dumped daily here 30 June 2012 Downloads: ESG Release: Mavallipura people shut down Ramky Landfill Facility 2 more die, yet few care for Mavallipura’s people dumped on by Bangalore’s Waste Muniraju (35 years) died couple of weeks ago in Mavallipura, a village north of Bangalore, due to kidney failure. With no previous family history of prevalence to such chronic diseases, the villagers have accused the Ramky run 40 acres solid waste

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