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Your award is a solid waste: PMC says

PMC to return its solid waste management award to Karnataka govt for its animosity towards Marathi-speaking people

Dinesh Thite

Posted On Tuesday, August 07, 2012 at 08:52:08 AM

At a recent conference in Mysore, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had been awarded for its solid waste management programme — but political leaders on Monday decided to give the award back to protest the dissolution of the Belgaum Municipal Corporation (BMC), which is led by Marathi-speaking people, by the Karnataka government.

The award PMC had received in Mysore

Mayor Vaishali Bankar told reporters that after the administration presented the award to her, a decision was taken by all party leaders that the award be rejected as it was related to the Karnataka State government, and the PMC supported Marathi leaders of the BMC.

She said, “The award will be returned to the Karnataka government with a letter explaining why the PMC wants to reject the award.”

PMC received the award on July 30 in Mysore in an International Conference on Solid Waste Management organized by the International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water along with the Mysore City Corporation and Centre for Quality Management System, Jadavpur University.

PMC was conferred the award for Excellence in Solid Waste Management by Union Minister of State for Urban Development Saugata Roy.

PMC is upset with the leading role that the urban development department of the Karnataka state government and the Mysore City Corporation plays in the organisation of the conference and the fact that the award carries the signature of a Karnataka official.

Belgaum mayor Manda Balekundri had recently visited Pune and demanded that the President dismiss the Karnataka state government and declare the border areas of the state as a union territory as the Karnataka government has dissolved the BMC for the second time.

She also demanded that the dissolved BMC be reinstated. Balekundri and Marathi-speaking corporators of Belgaum visited various cities to meet mayors and local representatives to garner support for their cause and create awareness about the alleged injustice meted out by the Karnataka government to Marathi-speaking people in border areas of Maharashtra and Karnataka.

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