Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur (SP)

Kundapur, Sep 7: Piles of garbage being dumped by the side of the national highway have been posing a huge challenge for the local administrations. People seated in luxury vehicles just toss bags of waste from inside the vehicles and flee away. Identifying the culprits has been a huge challenge in such cases. Under these circumstances, Tekkatte gram panchayat has succeeded in finding out the identity of the garbage throwers on the basis of bills found in the garbage.

The local administration checked the waste so disposed of and found some bills and receipts issued by shops etc, identified the culprits on this basis, and penalised them Rs 2,000 duly providing proof of what they had done. In addition, Rs 1,000 was also recovered from them as reward for the staff who identified them.

The Tekkatte gram panchayat was finding it very hard to handle bags of waste being thrown by the roadside on Malyady road. The administration has been collecting dry waste from individual houses to keep the area clean. The staff of the solid and liquid resource management (SLRM) scheme searched the waste and found bills and receipts in the bags pertaining to certain persons who were then served with notices and warned against continuing with the practice of throwing away garbage.