Initiative to make twin cities beautiful and clean

Hubballi: Professional and amateur artists of the twin cities will take part in 'Colour My City', a street painting event, on October 2 to mark Gandhi Jayanti.

Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Round Table and other organizations will take part on the event aimed at making the city cleaner, colourful and artistic.

Kiran Uppar, architect, told reporters on Tuesday that the event is an effort to showcase the creativity of local artists’ and create employment opportunities for them. Kiran urged socially responsible citizens, associations, businesses, clubs, NGOs and resident communities to adopt a street or a stretch of wall and keep them clean and colourful. Street infrastructure is central to daily commute and living, but there is a lack of initiative in keeping it clean.

Kiran urged the HDMC to take stern action against those destroying the city’s cleanliness.

“Those throwing trash on the roads, spitting, disposing waste in places other than designated garbage collection areas and posting printed ads in public places and infrastructure should be punished. The civic responsibility needs to be complemented by the government provision for cleanliness facilities and legal deterrents to violators,” he said.

Dr V B Nitali, Dr Veena Deniyal, Sandeep Harapanahalli, Dimpal Bhandari and M J Banglevale were also present on occasion.