Feel so ashamed of the resident who has done this !

 Can any one tell us who has dumped their repotted garden waste near the Cha Cha park bins?  

It is the duty of the resident to call a debris pick-up service and have it cleared from their home and NOT DUMP IT IN PUBLIC PLACES !

Bangalore's & particularly Jayamahal's Garbage Woes.

So ashamed to see this....      someone has dumped bags of debris near the bin ! 

 One single day's garbage from Jayamahal, is like this.  Imagine Mandur !!

 Continuous vigilance, from 6 AM to 7 PM. 
For 3 days, we stood there in the hot sun to prevent the BBMP sweepers and residents from dumping garbage on the road at the collection point and achieved 100 %  ZERO garbage on the ground. 

Now it's back to this - Cannot rid the roads of garbage, unless EVERY ONE does their bit !

Is this going to be a permanent scene of Jayamahal ?  Are we just going to accept and live with this ?

Team CIJMA is continuously trying to get the BBMP & the garbage contractor to collect only segregated waste and has had many Door to Door campaigns to educate residents regarding segregation & disposal of waste.  
A few house holds do segregate but the majority don't because they see the garbage being mixed up by the BBMP  Pourakarmikas who come to collect it !  
The Mandur Land Fill problem will never get solved as the BBMP still sees garbage as waste that should be "DUMPED" and not as "COMPOSTED & RECYCLED" 
Have we turned so selfish that we don't care about dumping OUR TOXIC GARBAGE on the villagers, when we don't even tolerate a neighbour's tree shedding its leaves into our compound !

Here's an article from today's Times of India which throws some light on the problem.......

Jul 12 2014 : The Times of India (Bangalore)
MY OPINION - What you see is not what you get
Ashwin Mahesh


A lot of people complain that BBMP mixes waste they have carefully segregated at home right in front of their eyes. Yes, but follow that truck and see what happens. At some point further downstream, its contents will be emptied and re-segregated. That should set us thinking -why would anyone do that?
The answer is simple. BBMP contractors want us to think that segregation is pointless. Those who segregate are recycling dry waste themselves for money . They are also saving costs on gardening in their communities by composting the wet waste. Both of these represent real streams of money that were earlier available to the contractor. He took what he wanted and dumped the rest without reducing the billable quantity -so it really was a bonanza. Naturally, he wants to hang on to that gravy train.If we allow ourselves to believe that segregation is pointless, the contractors will win. If we persist and wait for the fight in the court and BBMP to be settled, and a lot of people are fighting hard to hold this line -then the city will win.
We need to keep faith in responsible solid waste management (SWM). It is the right thing to do, which is why the 'system' works so hard to prevent it from happening.

Once we realize that, we must become even more determined to overcome it.

The writer is an urban expert

• We request every single resident of Jayamahal to SEGREGATE  WASTE.
• DO NOT DUMP near the bins.
• Please hand over DRY WASTE (plastics, papers, cloth, tins, cans, etc) ONLY ON SATURDAYS.   
• WET WASTE (kitchen waste & small amounts of garden waste) will be collected EVERY DAY.

Clean-up of water body at Jayamahal Aane Park

We, the residents of Jayamahal are blessed with a beautiful sunken park with lots of trees and a water body. 

Two days back, we walked into the park at 6.30 in the morning to see the dozens of water lilies in bloom.  We were amazed to find  a variety of wild water birds !  There were Barbets, Mynahs, Koels, Greenish Leaf Warblers, Sun birds, King Fishers, Pond Herons, Purple Moorhens and a host of others : )

The joy of seeing the Lilies & birds was marred by the amount of plastic bags, waste cloth, cans & all kind of trash in the water and on the  surrounding rock : (

This morning under Manjunath's  guidance ( BBMP supervisor ) 5 Paurakarmikas got into the water and collected all the trash.  One and a half hours later, they had picked up carry bags, soft drink & pesticide cans, bottles, discarded clothes like pants, bed sheets, shirts, etc.  They also found cooking vessels ( it's a wonder how all this stuff got into the water ! ) 
 6 large bags of trash was picked up !!!

We appeal to the regular walkers in the park to keep a hawk's eye on the visitors & not allow any one to bring in food or plastics into the Park.  
If only each one of us does our little bit to protect & preserve mother nature we can have little 'Heavens on Earth' in our own localities & back yards.

Here's the story in pictures .....

Water Lilies in the pond : )

With the arrival of monsoon, the elephants will be standing in water !

This lovely bird with its family is a resident of the pond !!!  
This has been identified as the Purple Moorhen !

Another lovely visitor !

Purple Moorhen with the babies : ) 

The whole family together : )

Large & colourful fish 

There are so many fish, the King Fishers were having a feast !

Another water bird ! 

King Fisher looking for fish....

With a fish in its beak !!!

Two King Fishers at breakfast : )

A Barbet

Koel

A little chick walking on the Lily leaf

Mynah

Pond Heron

Here's the ugly sight.....

Trash in the water.....

Pesticide can : (

More trash.......

More of the ugly sight : (

So much trash surrounding the water......

: (  Cleaned up all this today....

Manjunath & his men preparing for the clean-up

In action, collecting trash from the water....

Cleaning up all corners....

With 6 bags of trash...          Hope never to find trash in the Park, ever again....

Clean - up of Central Excise & Income Tax Quarters premises

A lot of garbage from the Central Excise and Income Tax Quarters used to be left on side-walks by the residents due to many reasons like, irregular pickup and inconvenient time of collection.  

To address this problem, Team Cijma met the Additional Commissioner of Central Excise and requested for bins to be installed within their premises.  With active support of their care takers, Mr Shafiullah Mohammad & Mr Varaprasad 6 bins were installed after which, the residents stopped throwing garbage on the foot paths.

Unfortunately, one of the bin was inaccessible to the residents as a result of which, the bin installed on the 1st Main was still overflowing and left in a mess by the CE & IT residents.

Team Cijma cleaned up the area around the bin to make it convenient  for the residents to use & one more bin will be moved to the same place.   Hope littering the foot path will now stop.

The solution is not in dumping garbage indiscriminately but to find the right way of disposing it without littering.  We hope there will be full co-operation by all.

Before Clean-up

Unapproachable !

Trash collected during cleaning

Please do not dump trash outside the bin.

Leaves burnt near the bin...Please do not damage the bins !

After clean-up....hope it will be maintained !

Another bin will be installed here....

2nd bin in place !!

Women's Day Event

To celebrate the International Women's Day today, we at cijma took up reviving 'our garden' area on the 1st Main Road.
Bescom dug out our plants to erect their power equipment, but later shifted to a different spot and left a mess in the place of our 'nice garden'.  This had again started to become a dump yard.  
So....here's what we did today with the help of The Ugly Indian, who had arranged ' All Women Spot fix ' in various areas.

Here are the pictures.....

This is what it was like in May, 2013

Looked like this after the Clean-Up

Bescom's ' Gift '

Everything ruined : (

Women Brigade !

All set to work.....

In action....

At work...

Transformed !!!!

We are going to revive the garden too.....

A Happy Lot : )