Karnataka introduces garbage tax, Bengaluru residents to pay for waste recycling

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Karnataka has introduced a new garbage tax for Bengaluru residents. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to charge property owners based on plot size, with a 1200 square feet plot paying around 400 rupees per year.

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00:00If you are a resident of Karnataka, there's going to be a garbage tax now in the state

00:05So after in many ways the hike that we have seen in other issues, for example milk

00:12And other civic concerns now there's going to be a garbage tax in Karnataka

00:17Even before we are talking about tariff wars of Trump, Bengaluru will have to pay for the waste recycle

00:23Clearly a new tariff every day in many ways. There's been a hike in milk

00:27hike in water

00:28Hike in electricity prices now pay for the garbage collection. Now, this is specific to Bengaluru is what we are told right now

00:37But remember the question is yes Karnataka is facing a massive cash crunch

00:42And is is this the way to go? Let's try and understand. Sagai Raj is joining me from Bengaluru on this

00:49Sagai, what would be a garbage tax?

00:52Is it new for Bengaluru?

00:54What is it going to be? Because I'm wondering if a resident of a city of Bengaluru, which is anyway so expensive right now

01:00Comes in a tax on garbage also

01:04No, this particular decision was taken by the BBMP and this particular charges will be very miniscule if you notice

01:11But if you are having a plot of thousand two hundred square feet and if they are charging about

01:15400 rupees per year, so it will be divided within those

01:20Apartments for an example one house has to pay around 10 or 20 rupees for a garbage test for a year

01:25So this will be the calculated according to how this not according to the plot

01:29so the entire plot will be around here on 400 rupees or on thousand or 200 square feet all and

01:36For that, this will be divided within the apartment like how many houses are there and it will be calculated

01:41so this will not be as much as the prices of for say a moth where I or

01:47a milk price which has been increased so definitely it will be

01:53It will be charges for the property tax where the people have to pay

01:57This will be added for added money in the property tax

02:00but still it will not pinch as much as how it is going to hurt when you are buying a

02:06Milk or when you are paying your electricity bill where the charges are increased in Bengaluru

02:11All right

02:11Keep tracking all the latest on that and we'll try and get some views from the public as well about what do they have to?

02:16Say about these constant hikes that are happening in different sectors in Bengaluru specifically

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