After months of negligent waste disposal, and failing to satisfy the Karnataka High Court that it was capable of hewing to the task, a bench headed by Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen gave the inept state government and its civic arm, the BBMP, four months time to set up three garbage disposal units in every one of the 198 wards in this once tree-lined, garbage-free city.
The bench was specific. It directed the government to establish one dry and one wet waste segregation units in all 28 state assembly constituencies that come under the BBMP’s jurisdiction, within two months.
In addition, the court said wet waste should be disposed of, in the 94.34 acres earmarked for such use at Sarjapura, while dry waste should be sent to Mandur, even as it picked seven more sites for landfills in Bengaluru.