{"id":21199,"date":"2014-11-09T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T04:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=21199"},"modified":"2014-11-09T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T04:35:08","slug":"night-squads-to-catch-garbage-dumping-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/night-squads-to-catch-garbage-dumping-on-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Squads to catch garbage dumping on the street!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several residents find it convenient to dump garbage on street and vacant plots especially under the cover of darkness. This illegal practise is about to end as Corporation health officials is gearing up for night patrol in several wards.<\/p>\n<p>Night patrol is as part of \u2018<strong>My City, Beautiful City<\/strong>\u2019 waste management project. Areas where waste dumping is a recognised problem have been identified and night patrol will concentrate on these areas to identify the offenders.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Night patrol will consist of 11 officials from the health department and will take turns, covering most areas of the ward. In the next phase, the police department will also help to catch the offenders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those who caught dumping garbage will be fined heavily. <em><strong>The fines range from Rs.5, 000 to Rs.25,000.<\/strong> <\/em>Previously the fine was low and this led to many instances where the offenders paid the fine and repeated the act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Though we have been campaigning about the importance of treating waste at source for long, many are yet to imbibe that habit. We want to put an end to this menace of throwing household waste in public places, once and for all. Enough warnings have been given. Now these hefty fines will hopefully be a deterrent.<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0 Says S. Pushpalatha, chairperson, Health Standing Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Corporation had setup Nirmal units and bio-bins for the public to dispose the garbage. They just need to bring it to these counters. The fifth Nirmal unit in the city was opened in Fort ward and two more Sreekanteswaram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several residents find it convenient to dump garbage on street and vacant plots especially under the cover of darkness. This illegal practise is about to end as Corporation health officials is gearing up for night patrol in several wards. Night patrol is as part of \u2018My City, Beautiful City\u2019 waste management project. Areas where waste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-21199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}