BSWML to ‘return’ garbage to homes of habitual litterbugs
Bengaluru: With garbage black spots mushrooming across the city, the Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML) has come under fire for failing to curb littering in public spaces despite deploying marshals across wards.
To send a strong message, the civic body has come up with a novel plan of dumping garbage back at the homes of habitual offenders, as reported by Deccan Herald.
Starting Thursday, BSWML will begin tracing the residences of those responsible for black spots and returning the collected waste to them as part of an awareness and enforcement drive.
“Despite awareness drives and fines, people continue to litter without handing it over to our vehicles. This move is meant to hold them accountable,” DH quoted Karee Gowda, CEO of BSWM, as saying.
Marshals deployed in all wards have been instructed to identify repeat violators and video record them while dumping waste to serve as evidence. Officials clarified that such offenders are being tracked primarily in areas where door-to-door waste collection is functioning effectively.
While BSWML expects the initiative to act as a deterrent, especially among households that are yet to adopt waste segregation and proper disposal practices, experts have urged the civic body to simultaneously plug gaps in the existing collection system.
They point to persistent challenges such as a shortage of auto tippers in certain Assembly segments, irregular collection timings, and instances where garbage vehicles skip houses that require drivers to wait or take longer routes, added the report.
There have also been complaints about drivers refusing to collect certain types of waste, including thermocol, tender coconuts, and broken glass pieces.
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Screenwriter Salim Khan on ventilator support and stable, say doctors
Mumbai (PTI): Veteran screenwriter Salim Khan suffered a brain haemorrhage which has been tackled, is on ventilator support as a safeguard and stable, doctors treating him said on Wednesday, a day after he was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital here.
The 90-year-old, one half of the celebrated Salim-Javed duo which scripted films such as "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don" with Javed Akhtar, is in the ICU and recovery might take some time given his age.
"His blood pressure was high for which we treated him and we had to put him on a ventilator because we wanted to do certain investigations. Now the ventilator was put as a safeguard so that his situation doesn't get worse. So it is not that he is critical," Dr Jalil Parkar told reporters.
"We did the investigations that were required and today we have done a small procedure on him, I will not go into the details. The procedure done is called DSA (digital subtraction angiography). The procedure has been accomplished, he is fine and stable and shifted back to ICU. By tomorrow, we hope to get him off the ventilator. All in all, he is doing quite well," he added.
Asked whether he suffered a brain haemorrhage, the doctor said, "Unko thoda haemorrhage hua tha, which we’ve tackled. No surgery is required.
As concern over Khan's health mounted, his children, including superstar Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan, daughter Alvira, and sons-in-law Atul Agnihotri and Aayush Sharma, have been seen outside the hospital along with other well-wishers. His long-time partner Akhtar was also seen coming out of the hospital.
Khan, a household name in the 70s and 80s, turned 90 on November 24 last year. It was the day Dharmendra, the star of many of his films, including "Sholay", "Seeta aur Geeta" and "Yaadon Ki Baraat", passed away.
Hailing from an affluent family in Indore, Khan arrived in Mumbai in his 20s with dreams of stardom. He was good looking and confident he would make a mark in the industry as an actor. But that did not happen. And then, after struggling for close to a decade and getting confined to small roles in films, he changed lanes.
He worked as an assistant to Abrar Alvi and soon met Akhtar to form one of Hindi cinema's most formidable writing partnerships. They worked together on two dozen movies with most of them achieving blockbuster status.
Other than "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don", Khan and Akhtar also penned "Trishul", "Zanjeer", "Seeta Aur Geeta", "Haathi Mere Saathi", "Yaadon Ki Baarat" and "Mr India".
