BENGALURU: Bengaluru Development Minister Krishna Byre Gowda directed officials to identify vacant plots where garbage was being dumped across all city corporations, serve notices to the owners and take up cleaning work promptly where owners fail to comply.
Chairing a virtual meeting on Monday, the minister noted that plot owners had been given time until August 22 to undertake the cleaning themselves (under the Freedom From Waste campaign). However, only around 20% of site owners in some areas had complied with the August 15 deadline.
“The civic bodies must now identify the plots, serve notices and ensure that they are cleaned. Wherever the civic body has to undertake the work, the cost should subsequently be recovered through property tax,” Byre Gowda said.
The minister also stated that officials have been directed to provide citizens with an option to report through the ‘Clear It’ app vacant plots that have not been cleaned.
HE directed all five city corporations to begin the cleaning drive from Thursday, with the exercise to be scaled up and implemented more intensively from the following Monday.
“Make all necessary arrangements, including excavators, tippers, tractors and adequate manpower to undertake the cleaning drive across the city,” he said.