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,…
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…
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?…
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: https://www.khushiparisara.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Fire.mp4?_=1 https://www.khushiparisara.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Benki2_CLIPCHAMP_480p-copy.mp4
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…
Khushi Parisara organised a program to start raising awareness on the problem of marine trash, on the need of accurate policy and of ocean literacy. If in land, to protect the air, we have to reshape the traditional practice of cleaning by burning, in the ocean we have to reshape the traditional practice of disposing…
Six months after the great launching of the ZERO WASTE PROGRAM, we were lead to assess our work in front of this scenario, appreciated by all of us could. We highlight just a part of it – the one accessible to all of us, as public. At the entrance, the beautiful cloth banner has been replaced…
Now Municipality has started the collection of dry waste.
DC 1. Strict enforcement of rules (waste, sound, plastics) 2. Provide apt Waste Manager and qualified Health Officer to Kumta 3. Upgrade unusable public toilets (Kumta) 4. Assign Committee for achieving SDG14 Commitment AC 1. Strictly implement Plastic ban 2. Implement Chart for Eco-friendly practices at all Offices 3. Launch ZERO WASTE…
In town, water bodies are also dustbins, place for high plastic-diversity. The mangrove area is still more threatened as it is closer to the Highway, from where huge amount of garbage is discharged and daily dumped .
Along with the composting endeavour at Fish market and other places, with the blessings of TMC and DHO, other experiments are going on. Using drains as dustbins saves investment and makes extremely accessible the disposal of waste by public. It is the main choice in Kumta, even after the collection of dry waste is done…
January 2016, we have asked to the then Municipal Chief Officer, Megharaj Naik, to urgently stop burning trash in town. After his departure from the post, we have renewed last March the request to the Municipal Chief Officer in charge, the environmental engineer, Nagendra Gaonkar. Since no action was taken, and still all sort of garbage is intensively burnt in the streets of…
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?…
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…
Mainly they are “dustbins”. They were already before TMC removed the concrete rings for secondary waste collection. But now, they excel … Though their principal function of carrying flowing matter is somehow maintained