HC: 'weed out' councillors who thwart trash-disposal plans

July 18, 2014 12:31 am | Updated 12:31 am IST - Bangalore

It is the time Bangaloreans “weed out” BBMP councillors, who come in the way of effective implementation of plans to solve the city’s garbage menace, by voting against them, the High Court of Karnataka said on Thursday.

The court also said that NGOs should inform people about the hurdles caused by the councillors in solving garbage problem in their wards and create an awareness to vote against such councillors.

‘Resisting initiative’

A Division Bench comprising Justice N. Kumar and Justice B.V. Nagarathna made observations in this regard in its order on the public interest litigation petitions that many councillors were resisting plans to collect waste in segregated form though the residents were willing to cooperate.

“When the councillors, who solve people’s problems, become the hurdle, it speaks about the sorry state of affairs and the helplessness of the public. This situation should be an eye opener for the voters in the city. These councillors are unfit to hold the post and they should be shown the door,” the Bench observed.

The court also expressed serious displeasure after noticing that 60 ward committees, headed by the councillor of the respective wards, had not held meetings since their constitution more than a year ago.

“It is the failure of the respective councillor and members. We are aware whether the meetings were not held deliberately or they were not aware of the rules…,” the Bench said while directing BBMP Special Commissioner (Solid Waste Management) Darpan Jain to educate the councillors and members on their responsibilities.

To a query by the Bench, BBMP Commissioner M. Lakshminarayana said that city MLAs were cooperating in the implementation of waste management plans.

During an earlier hearing, the court had castigated the MLAs as it was complained that they were preventing setting up of waste processing units in their constituencies besides supporting contractors’ cartel.

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