Work on the clearance of legacy waste at the waste management plant at Vidyaranyapuram is on.
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Effective April 1, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) will begin garbage collection charges or solid waste management user fee from property owners.

According to a public notice issued by the MCC, the user fee has been fixed based on the size of the residential property of the waste generators.

While houses upto 500 sq.ft will have to pay a user fee of ₹30 per month, houses between 501 and 1,000 sq.ft will have to pay a user fee of ₹40 per month. Similiary, a monthly user fee of ₹50 has been fixed for houses between 1,001 and 2,000 sq.ft and a user fee of ₹60 per month had been fixed for houses above 2,000 sq.ft.

The user fee will be calculated annually and will be collected along with property tax payable for 2025-26. “The solid waste management user fee will be collected along with the property tax payable to MCC from this year,” said an MCC official.

The public notice issued by MCC Commissioner Shaikh Tanveer Asif said the collection of solid waste management fees is among the primary responsibilities of the urban local bodies and a gazette notification issued by the Urban Development Department in October 2019 makes a mention of the same.

Meanwhile, the issue of solid waste management user fee was proposed during the progress review meeting on solid waste management presided over by the Chairman of State Committee of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in January 2024.

The MCC has decided to collect user fee for solid waste management from residential areas in the first phase.

Meanwhile, sources in the MCC pointed out that the civic body hopes to raise about ₹8 to 9 crore during the first year of imposition of user fee for solid waste management.

550 tonnes of waste per day

Mysuru generates about 550 tonnes of waste per day, which is treated at two waste management plants at Rayanakere and Kesare.

Meanwhile, work is continuing on the clearance of legacy waste from the waste management plant at Vidyaranyapuram.