Karnataka high court
The prescribed service charge is Rs 5 per kg for animal waste and Rs 3 per kg for bone waste. The notice also provides for penalties of Rs 2,000 and Rs 3,000 for non-compliance and warns that trade licences could be cancelled for violations.
In such cases, feathers and other waste are packed and handed over to the concerned representatives within eight hours, with traders receiving a price for the material—an arrangement that, the petitioner said, could extend to other categories of waste depending on the industry. Bengaluru: In a setback for Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), Karnataka high court has stayed the operation of the public notice issued by Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Ltd (BSWML) on the new animal waste management rules. Hearing a petition filed by the association, Justice BM Shyam Prasad passed the interim order. Under the latest rules of BSWML, animal-waste generators are required to hand over chicken, mutton, fish and other animal waste, as well as bones, only to notified private service providers. The court was informed that some poultry meat centres (PMCs) have contracts with pharmaceutical and other companies manufacturing animal feed. The petitioner further argued that GBA’s blanket system did not take these existing commercial and waste-processing arrangements into account.
The court posted the matter for further hearing on Nov 5. Justice Shyam Prasad observed that if the process explained by the petitioner had not been considered while issuing the public notice, GBA should give the traders an opportunity to present their case and examine whether the existing distribution arrangements could be protected.