BENGALURU: BBMP Commissioner Manjunath Prasad on Tuesday said that a proposal had been sent to the state government to use lands in Kannalli and Mavalipura for waste segregation and setting up waste-to-energy plants. Answering the questions raised in the BBMP council on the increasing garbage menace in the city, Prasad said that permission to dump 1,000 tonnes each in Kannalli and Mavalipura has been sought. The National Green Tribunal has issued stern orders that waste should always be segregated before being dumped in any quarry or landfill.
The Commissioner said that NGT had pulled up BBMP for dumping waste in Bagalur and slapped a penalty of Rs 5 crore. Besides, orders were also issued to bio-mine garbage instead of bio-remediation. Bellalli, which was the biggest
