Garbage management to cost less

Soon, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike may be spending less for solid waste management. Niranjan said that the contractors who participated in the new garbage tenders had quoted up to 40 per cent less. The new garbage tenders were opened recently and they will be placed before the Standing Committee for Health for approval, following which it will come before the BBMP Council,” he said. Meeting This issue was discussed during the BBMP Council meeting recently and councillors had sought relaxation in terms and conditions to ensure that the “garbage mafia” did not get to participate in the new tenders. He added that the BBMP had entrusted the construction of 20 dry waste collection centres to the Karnataka Rural Infrastructure Development Ltd. “As many as 20 have been set up,” he said.