BMP vows to free City of ‘blackspots’

BMP vows to free City of ‘blackspots’
Deccan Herald

What is your count of the garbage ‘hotspots’, stinking pavements and defaced walls (with posters and banners) in the City? The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) calls them ‘blackspots’

What is your count of the garbage ‘hotspots’, stinking pavements and defaced walls (with posters and banners) in the City? The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) calls them ‘blackspots’ and claims there are 908 of them.

A meeting of health officials convened by BMP Commissioner K Jairaj on Saturday, set a deadline of October-end to eliminate all these eyesores.

“The BMP has cleared 288 blackspots and the remaining will be eliminated before October 24. Piles of garbage, stinking pavements plague every area in the City. It is largely because of lack of civic sense among the people,” said Mr Jairaj.

During the ‘Suvarna Karnataka’ year, the BMP hopes to give impetus to public awareness campaigns, hygiene in ‘Nirmala’ toilets, cleanliness drives in slums, door-to-door collection of garbage, sensitisation

of health workers and pourakarmikas to cleanliness, banning posters and banners in public places and improving hygiene in hotels and restaurants.