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,…
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…
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Because elected members are not owning Gokarna Gram, they are just its caretakers, they have to abide to the rules and guidelines in order to accomplish their duties. Indeed, they have the choice to care or not to care They are free to do not care, naturally, but if so, they abandon their position in GP The most of…
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…
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,…
Some images will help to make clear to all that the situation is extremely hazardous, that even if the elected body is not concerned, nor noticing the threat that is coming from mismanagement of waste, still the danger is there and is imploding day by day. The extremely fragile zone of seashore, permanently threatened, where for…
Tourism Service Providers (TSP) – At Gokarna, hotels, resorts, restaurants, shacks, cafes, guest houses contribute dramatically for the spread of terrific practices on managing waste. Though they carefully bring to their places the items required for their business they don’t take back their remainings and year after year they either burn them on the beach…
Dear Mr. Joshi Here an overview of all the points that are under your power, that we would like to see to come also under your will-power. The points related to the elected body will be tackled in due time on a PIL. 1. Collecting points for recycling items: In addition to the ones handed…
between the possibly poorest village (Alvedande) and the potentially richest village (Gokarna) of Uttara Kannada STARTING POINT Khushi parisara considers that the reasons behind the excess of malinya parisara do not result from the high population density, but from density of ignorance (avidya); it is not also because there is bad or ill-will, but because…
Khushi Parisara has made repeated requests to PDO “to take a plastics zero-tolerance stance at Gokarna, urgently”, also many appeals to the Sarpanch to “urgently provide the bye-law with the needful penal framework for enforcement of the plastic ban ruled by the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, because, unless there is a strong penal framework, in general, it is easier for people to adjust than to…
MODELLING PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR AT SCHOOL, will be conducted at all schools of Gokarna and Kumta. Teachers are going to lead the way for raising awareness on this topic. MODELLING PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR FROM/AT SCHOOL Input – printed and audio-video material, training of the students Output – Gokarna and Kumta students will become waste aware…