BMC proposes user fee for garbage collection in draft sanitation byelaws

MUMBAI: The BMC on Monday unveiled its draft cleanliness and sanitation byelaws for 2025, which include a user fee for the daily collection of solid waste from individual flats. BMC proposes user fee for garbage collection in draft sanitation byelaws The Solid Waste Management user fee will also be levied on commercial establishments, guesthouses, restaurants, clinics, laboratories, godowns, offices, small and cottage industry workshops, cold storage units, marriage halls, festival halls, exhibitions and fair areas. The proposal to impose a user fee for solid waste, mentioned by civic chief Bhushan Gagrani in the budget document of February 2025-26, finally got the green signal from the BMC’s legal department this month. The 2006 bylaws primarily assigned the responsibility of waste collection and disposal to the BMC.