Garbage crisis to ease as trucks enter Bingipura

Villagers agree to let in trash vehicles following meeting with minister

Residents of Bingipura have agreed to let garbage truck into the landfill site at their village after Bengaluru in-charge minister Ramalinga Reddy met them on Tuesday and promised to address their demands within two months.

With this, the garbage crisis that was looming over Bengaluru has been resolved for the time being.

Reddy, who visited Bingipura near Anekal on Tuesday morning, met the villagers at Bettadasanapura Government School, located near the landfill site.

He sought two months from villagers to find an alternative to dumping Bengaluru’s garbage near the village.

“A waste-segregation unit set up on Hosur Road will be functional soon and the garbage going to Bingipura will be sent there. The unit is in the final stage of commissioning and will be made operational at the earliest,” he told Deccan Herald but refused to disclose where exactly the facility is coming up.

Mayor B N Manjunath Reddy, Deputy Mayor S P Hemalatha, BBMP Commissioner G Kumar Naik and other officials were also present at the meeting. Villagers seemed content with the minister’s assurance.

One of them, Sundaresh, said they had no option but to wait for two months. “We will allow the trucks from Tuesday night onwards. The minister and Palike officials have assured us that development works would be taken up in the village soon.”

The Palike has issued work orders for Rs 15 crore worth of civil works in the village and the funds have been released, an official said.

Sanitary pipelines
“The village will get new roads as well as sanitary pipelines. The quarry-turned-dumping yard will become a park and villagers will get health insurance,” the official said. Now, more than 200 trucks are expected to enter the landfill site every day as garbage has piled up across Bengaluru in the last few days. Earlier, the number of trucks entering Bingipura was 150, Sundaresh said.

Bingipura residents had locked the gates of the dumping yard on September 12, stating that methane leaking from the landfill site was causing them health hazards. They also demanded that the Palike develop their village.