The grand swearing-in ceremony of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Saturday was attended by over a lakh people. Soon after the ceremony was over, pictures surfaced on social media of the streets around the stadium being littered with plastic packets, bottles and more.
According to the officials of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), 15 tonnes of waste were collected near the stadium.
“Around 1.2 lakh people attended the event. We had kept 50 dustbins, but there was a lot of litter. There were buttermilk packets, plastic water and juice bottles, tetra packs and much more collected,” said an official in the Solid Waste Management department of BBMP.
