The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has mooted a proposal to levy user fee for Solid Waste Management (SWM) in the city. The proposal links SWM user fee with the electricity bill fixing different slabs for residential and commercial connections. The user fee for residential households varies from ₹30 to ₹500, while for commercial establishments, it varies from ₹75 to ₹1,200, depending on the consumption of electricity.
The SWM user fee will be decided based on the quantum of the electricity bill and will come added in the bill, which one has to pay the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom), which will in turn reimburse it to the Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Ltd. (BSWML), the new parastatal charged with collection, transportation, and processing of waste in the city.
If this policy comes into force, the policy of asking commercial establishments and bulk generators to handle their waste through empanelled vendors will also be scrapped and the civic body will collect, transport, and process that garbage too, at a premium cost compared to residential units.
