Bengaluru: Bangalore Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML), the parastatal tasked with waste collection, hit the headlines not only in Bengaluru but across the city when videos of garbage being dumped in front of people and on the roadside were caught on camera.

Was such a step needed? Was it drastic? Or should it be seen as a pressure tactic?

“Yes.. It was very much needed and should be scaled up and made a regular process. These violators need to be named and shamed for being anti-social,” says Kochhu Sankar, a senior citizen volunteer, who also coordinates Horamavu RWA Collective.

However, he also thinks BSWML should be taken to task for auto tippers not reaching on time for door-to-door collection and for not being empathetic to residents who need an alternate way to dispose of was

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