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The Mangaluru City Corporation, successful relation with Shri Ambamaheswari Seva Trust and Hasiru Dala, started a thrust connected February 13 to make consciousness astir the prohibition connected single-use integrative transportation bags and connected the work of households to manus implicit segregated waste. The thrust volition screen 36,650 houses successful Kadri Zone-3 of MCC.
Members of Hasiru Dala staged a thoroughfare play connected discarded segregation successful beforehand of the MCC buying analyzable astatine Kadri successful Mangaluru connected February 13, 2026. | Photo Credit: Raghava M
MCC Zonal Commissioner for Zone-3 Rekha Shetty said teams comprising multi-purpose workers, Hasiru Dala activists and Ambamaheswari Seva Trust members volition beryllium visiting much than 36,000 houses successful the portion successful a month’s time. Each location volition beryllium fixed a sticker affirming their committedness to manus implicit segregated discarded erstwhile MCC unit travel to cod waste.
Ms. Shetty said MCC is superior astir the prohibition connected usage of single-use integrative transportation bags by shops, concern establishments and eateries. “Shops, eatery outlets and different establishments should not marque usage of integrative transportation bags and different single-use integrative materials. If they neglect to comply with MCC’s directions, the MCC volition commencement collecting a good of ₹10,000,” Ms. Shetty said.
Most of the households, Ms. Shetty said, were segregating garbage into adust and bedewed waste, and handing them implicit to MCC personnel. “We volition prevail upon households to proceed this practice,” she said.
MCC Commissioner Ravichandra Naik said imposing a good is not an enactment of MCC to make revenue. “We privation radical to inculcate the wont of carrying articles successful cloth and different transportation bags,” helium said.
The consciousness drives volition beryllium held successful different zones of the metropolis too, helium said.
He released stickers, which volition beryllium handed implicit by MCC teams during the house-to-house visit. On February 13, teams visited implicit 1,000 houses successful Kadri area.
Members of Hasiru Dala, which was actively progressive successful discarded collection, segregation, disposal and holding consciousness drives successful 5 panchayats successful Ullal taluk, 2 panchayats successful Mangaluru taluk, and 3 panchayats successful Bantwal taluk, participated successful the MCC’s consciousness enactment connected February 13. The activists, led by Nagaraj Bajal, staged a thoroughfare play connected due discarded disposal successful beforehand of the caller MCC buying analyzable astatine Kadri.
