BBMP plea to extend deadline for garbage dumping in Mandur

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike will urge the communities living around the Mandur landfill to allow dumping of garbage for some more time until alternate arrangements are made. This is not the first time that the BBMP has sought time from the communities to continue dumping in the landfills there.BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah told reporters here on Thursday that the civic body needs another year at least to have scientific solid waste management practices in place. Conceding that the landfills are only temporary solutions to the garbage problem, he said that the government and BBMP would finalise the SWM proposals submitted by over 35 companies by March 1. Mr. Siddaiah said, the permanent solution to the garbage crisis would be 100 per cent waste segregation at source and ensuring that only inerts are sent to the landfills. The BBMP would also be giving KCDC its land in Kudlu to set up a wet waste processing unit with a capacity to process 500 tonnes a day.