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Citizens do the work, BBMP trashes it all
Citizens do the work, BBMP trashes it all
ByY Maheswara ReddyY Maheswara Reddy / Updated: Jan 27, 2021, 06:00 IST
Kasturinagar residents unhappy with
waste collection centre at spot below
flyover they cleaned
At one point, the
vacant space below Benniganahalli Flyover was known for being a dumping yard for garbage. When all the pleas of Kasturinagar residents fell on deaf ears, they took matter into their own hands and cleaned up the space in 2017 and spent lakhs of rupees to remove heaps of garbage, level the ground and paint the flyover pillars.
But now, all their efforts seem to have been trashed by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). The Palike’s health department has put up a temporary structure below the flyover for a dry waste collection centre to take care of trash collected from a different ward (Vijinapura- ward number 51). Kasturinagar is part of Benniganahalli (ward number 50) in ....

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