• The ocean is in a state of emergency: the problem of marine litter is appalling, as the environmental impact of marine waste, especially plastics, has exceeded acceptable limits for possible regeneration of the oceans. • In parallel with the criminal actions that have made the sea into a global dump, there is a serious…
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Message from a Singaporean Tourist to Local and District authorities, 2019 De : KWAN RONG Soh <sohkwanrong@gmail.com> Date: mer. 13 mars 2019 à 11:04 Subject: Waste Management Problem in Gokarna To: <ddswo.karwar@gmail.com>, <adtourismkarwar@gmail.com>, <directortourismkarnataka@gmail.com> Cc: <dckarwar@gmail.com>, <ceo_zp_kwr@nic.in>, <acokumta@gmail.com> Addressed to: Tourism Department, Government of Karnataka Subject: Waste Management Problem in Gokarna I am a visitor…
Ramatirtha is one of the many places in Gokarna where pilgrims and devotees come for bathing. It is also one of the many places where they throw their cloths, and other varied items on the ground or on the ocean. To prevent such disposal of waste Khushi Parisara has provided bins for cloths for general waste …
Potentially, Gokarna is the wealthiest village of the whole District, be its multiple resources properly managed. Khushi Parisara, extremely concerned with the tourism growth at Gokarna, with its extensive use & throw practices, the massive CRZ encroaching, the huge tourists/visitors OD, the large garbage incineration, the death and heavy pollution of water bodies, etc, got prepared to…
Khushi Parisara is suggesting the Police Corps to go beyond local people’s perception that Police is mainly concerned with 2 offences [smoking and helmet], the only ones deserving boards and agents to implement them. And we are requesting to take some action on general waste related offenses (burning, throwing and dumping), also on plastics, debris,…
The Bus Stand, by its huge visibility, has to be a place teaching people the best good practices concerning cleanliness and waste in order to model a clean behaviour. Actually, bus stations of NWKRTC, in remarkable contrast with surrounding train stations, are generally dirty with trash and spits spread all around.Toilets are dirty and without the proper facilities.There are…
Mummery of swachhata at Kumta Court For long time that the premisses of the court in Kumta were exhibiting a filthy show to the sight of all of us, frequenting it or just passing by. the windows being used then as dustbins the waste being incinerated on the spot and the toilets showing the most…
Simple story … they arrived in Gokarna at the very beginning of the tourist the season, coming from France. They were having their holidays with the family, moving around, observing, noting the dreadful condition of the seashore. Asking and talking and discussing they started collecting all the plastic bottles they were finding on their way… Removing…
Politics of Nature for Kumta Taluka Today’s great changes, whether ecological, democratic or digital, require a profound transformation of our society and lead to different power relationships. More and more of us are convinced that citizen engagement is the cornerstone of global change. But what are we talking about when we talk about citizen engagement?…
The waste management practices of Tourism Service Providers (TSP) on the seashore remain, year after year, perfectly ecocidal. Their preferred system is the open burning of all waste, creating a long hours persistent smoke on their area, either at early morning or late evening. The alternate system is the burying of all waste on the shoreline,…
At Kumta, as at uncountable rural and urban areas, citizens by themselves and local bodies workers,daily dispose of garbage by burning it everywhere… mainly at sunset … but at raising sun also And still: http://www.khushiparisara.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Fire.mp4?_=1 http://www.khushiparisara.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Benki2_CLIPCHAMP_480p-copy.mp4
Gram Panchayat workers burning trash at Sangam Restaurants on the seashore burning their trash every other day Gram Panchayat burning waste every day at the dumping site! Actually, when we witness these practices we understand that waste is one of the biggest “ecociders”. Waste fulfils all the criteria of an ecocide: environmental destruction, damage of ecosystems, threaten to all sorts of…
To create consciousness about the so common practice of burning waste, a brigade anti-burning has been created to act in Kumta in Gokarna. Distributing the notice published at Udayavani on the order of the National Green Tribunal, and fixing sign boards at most required places, we expect to make people understand that burning became a serious offence, locally…