Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (JD)
Udupi, May 19: Deputy commissioner G Jagadeesha has warned public of seizing the vehicles used to throw garbage on national highways and other roads.
In a media release, the DC said, "It has come to my notice that many are dumping garbage on road sides. The vehicles which are used to throw garbage will be seized by the local administration. Such vehicles will be used to collect garbage until the end of Covid -19 pandemic.”
Even during the lockdown, the public here in certain parts of Udupi, were dumping garbage on national highway and other roads. Daijiworld.com in a report, a couple of years ago, had found that Nittur area on the national highway was the hotspot for garbage dumping. This was also followed in many gram panchayat limits as well.