NO PLACE TO DUMP: Garbage lorries parked on Sampige Road in Bangalore on Tuesday. — Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.

BANGALORE: Garbage collection is likely to be affected in the western parts of the city from Wednesday, as the lorries that lifted the waste in the last two days have not been able to dispose of it till late on Tuesday night.

Around 60 lorries loaded with 300 tonnes of garbage lined up near the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike's West Zone office on Sampige Road in Malleswaram from Monday, as the proprietor of Ramkey Constructions, who is developing the scientific landfill for the BMP at Mavallipura, has stopped entry to the landfill.

According to sources in the BMP, this 300-metre approach road to the landfill is under litigation and authorities at Ramkey fear that allowing entry through this road might attract the wrath of the court.

"They have asked us to come through the other approach road. But that is owned by a private person and lorry drivers, who used this road earlier, have been assaulted several times," the sources said.

According to the private garbage contractors, this is likely to hit clearance and disposal of waste generated in parts of Rajajinagar, Mahalakshmipuram, Chamarajpet, Chickpet, Malleswaram, Gandhinagar and Yeshwanthpur.

"Unless the lorries dispose of the accumulated waste, Wednesday's collection cannot be transported. If the BMP works out an alternative, it may take two days for the situation to become normal," general secretary of the Bangalore Mahanagara Swachate Lorry Maalikara Mattu Guttigedarara Sangha S. Balasubramaniam said.

BMP Joint Commissioner (West) M.A. Khalid told The Hindu that the civic body had worked out a temporary solution to the problem. "As entry to the BMP-owned Mavallipura land has been blocked, we have requested Bylappa, the owner of the land adjacent to the landfill to allow us to dump garbage there for sometime. We hope the litigation pertaining to the forest land is cleared soon because unless that happens, the problem cannot be solved," he said.

Similarly, clearance of waste in the south zone has also been hit in the last two weeks as the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) has also stopped accepting waste.

With mountains of waste piled up on the KCDC premises, there is no place left for further dumping.

The KCDC authorities have written to the BMP that they cannot take any more for the next five months, the sources said.

It is learnt that the BMP has directed all the lorry drivers in the south zone to dump garbage at a private quarry in Kasavanahalli behind the Mata Amritanandamayi College on Sarjapur Road.

More than 350 lorries are deployed to transport the city's daily garbage of 2,200 tonnes.

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