Cleanliness drive in Bengaluru: BBMP collects 3,570 tonnes of waste in two days
Bengaluru: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), which is organizing a 10-day cleanliness drive from April 21 to 30, collected up to 3,570 tonnes of waste as well as construction debris from 458 sites in the state capital in two days.
The campaign is being held in all eight BBMP zones. The BBMP has identified 1,533 locations where various types of waste, from construction and demolition debris to roadside logs and garbage, have accumulated, according to a report in The Hindu.
Zonal commissioners are overseeing the operations of the Bangalore Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML) personnel, who are working at clearing the sites of waste. In addition, more than 13 earthmovers, 10 tippers, 60 tractors and 170 personnel have been deployed for the work.
Thirty per cent of the identified sites are learned to have been cleared of the waste so far.
The BBMP has urged citizens of Bengaluru to not dump waste in public areas but hand it over to the door-to-door auto tippers of the BBMP. The authorities, further, have asked citizens who find illegal dumping to report it to the BBMP on the helpline number 1533 or Sahay 2.0 mobile phone app.
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India has agreed already to drop its tariffs to nothing: President Trump
New York/Washington, May 7 (PTI): US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said India has “agreed” to drop its high tariffs “to nothing”.
“I mean, India as an example, has one of the highest tariffs in the world. We’re not going to put up with that, and they’ve agreed already to drop it. They’ll drop it to nothing. They’ve already agreed. They would have never done that for anybody else but me,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump and visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke to reporters as they met in the Oval Office to discuss the US-Canada trade.
“So we’re going to put down some numbers and we’re going to say our country is open for business and they’re going to come in and they’re going to pay for the privilege of being able to shop in the United States of America. It’s very simple. It’s very simple,” he added.
In the past, Trump has called India “tariff king” and a “big abuser”.
Last month, Trump had said that negotiations with India over a bilateral trade deal are “coming along great” and he thinks “we’ll have a deal with India”.
