As Srinidhi brought out this observation,  how other cities are taking this challenge???

Now every one is talking of  false claim of  BBMP & Garbage contractors  that Bangalore generates more garbage then Mumba & Delhi.

On the same line,  how are the other METROs in India are handling this issue ???

Even cities like Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune & calcutta, how r they handling this garbage issue.

Collecting from the Apartments,  localities and then transporting them,  segregating  and land fills.

The picture in fact makes me ask the question do they clear garbage ever?  More than garbage clearers looks like the very folks tasked with clearing garbage are garbage generators.

>> we Indians are so used to getting jobs done for us that we take >> them for granted!

It is not about Indians used to getting jobs done for us. See, the thing is that world over every service including garbage collection & disposal, janitorial services in hotels and public places are done by those people (semi skilled labor) who provide those services. And, those services are taken for granted since they work almost flawlessly in those countries. The problem in India is that a system hasn not been visualized, established and operationalized for  automated/semi-automated way of garbage collection and final disposal. 

If you really think of it from a different perspective many birds can be killed with one stone if a visionary thinks about the bigger picture

1) Generation of massive employment for building and maintaining garbage collection trucks (Tata, Leyland, Volvo and other players can manufacture these trucks indigenously within India), garbage bins and garbage carts.

2) Generation of massive employment because of the workforce needed on a massive scale to clear garbage in all the cities and towns.

3) Solid waste treatment plants can be setup that could use garbage to generate electricity. This could tackle the dual problem of getting rid of the waste and at the same time generating electricity.

The rest of the developed world has an established working system to clear garbage and keep the surroundings clean. Is that such a difficult task to establish that system and keep it operational in India? I don't get it. People will leave no stone unturned to have a plush house with Italian marble etc. but not be willing to spend 10 or 20 Rs per month for waste removal and will not think twice about throwing it on the street as many may have witnessed. So, bottom line is i see a systemic failure in the corporations establishing a proper operational system; lack of enforcement so make sure that contractors operating the system as well as people using the system are following it.

>>why should anybody put their hands through dirty rotten >>diapers..just because they are expected to?

No garbage collector should be expected to put their hands through rotten diaper or other trash. The corporation/garbade disposal contractor is expected to provide them with proper tools and the workers are expected to use those tools to do their job of garbage collection and disposal. Sadly the provision of correct tools is lacking.

BBMP seems to have grandoise plans on paper - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Get-set-to-cull-out-garbage-at-home-in-Bangalore/articleshow/16259546.cms  not sure how much has actually been implemented and functional on the streets.

 BDA to give at least five CA sites to the BBMP in the layouts that the authority would be developing. The BBMP could set up waste management plants in those CA sites to manage waste generated by residents of these layouts.

A communiqué stated that Mr. Shettar assured the BBMP that he would direct the Revenue Department to allot government land to the BBMP within the next 10 days. BBMP would use lands at Kannahalli, Seegehalli and Anekal to set up state-of-the-art decentralised waste processing units.

He directed the civic body to change its waste management strategy and give impetus to decentralised waste processing. The waste processing centres could be set up in various locations to reduce environmental impact and regulate the movement of garbage trucks.

Mr. Shettar suggested the setting up of waste processing centres of 300-tonne capacity in all Assembly constituencies in the city to help manage the waste at the constituency level for another decade. The BBMP had been directed to prepare a ward-wise city sanitation plan for decentralised waste management for the next decade. The All India Institute of Local Self Government is preparing plans for two wards as a pilot project, which would be later replicated in all wards, the release added.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/ca-sites-can-be-used-for-garbage-segregation-jagadish-shettar/article4094519.ece

This was during Nov'2012.  Looks like either BBM or BDA or Revenue Dept done their work in decentralizing the waste processing in last 18 months.

I saw,  Yesterday high court suggested to use CA site for the same.

In next two months,  Garbage issue will back fire due to continued festivals till Dasara.  Added to this,  we did not  get clear sun for last one month with cloudy weather,  now rains coming in at last.  Waste will make this city as Waste city for next two months  as concerned people are busy responsibly in making money in the name of Garbage city.

Digging into Bangalore’s Waste – Waste Characterization Study 2014

http://grasshopperfiles.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/digging-into-bangalores-waste-waste-characterization-study-2014/

http://bangalore.citizenm...

What is the latest status on these plants? BBMP's website seems to be give no information whatsoever!

Failing to find a permanent solution to around 8,000 black spots in the city, the BBMP will shortly install two bins in each ward to facilitate garbage disposal
In three years, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has not been unable to find a permanent solution to garbage lying scattered all around the city. Not able to bear the eyesore anymore, citizens of the garden city have suggested that the bin culture be brought back. Now, the civic body has decided to reintroduce bins for garbage collection. If everything goes as per plan, BBMP will soon place bins in each black spot (garbage dump) in the city, and hope to curb the menace.
Nearly 8,000 such garbage black spots have been identified across the city. Most of these are cleaned every day, only to have trash dumped again by people almost immediately. These spots are ones that had dustbins in the past. Bengaluru was made free of bins in the year 2000 when the civic body introduced door-to-door garbage collection. But still, there are complaints that garbage is not collected regularly from each house, forcing people to dump garbage in the open.
While the collection system was going along fine and keeping the city by and large clear of garbage, came the Mandur issue. It was the year 2012 when Mandur villages started protesting against garbage being dumped in their backyard. BBMP contractors did not lift garbage in the city because the corporation did not have a solution to the protests.
Not having an alternative ground to dump the city's garbage, the BBMP could not force the contractors to lift garbage. In all these years, the civic body has failed to find a permanent solution to the garbage menace. So much so that Bengaluru's garbage woes even got reported in the international media with the civic administration bombarded for its inability to provide a solution. The then-BJP government specially appointed IAS officer Darpan Jain to tackle the garbage menace. It is Jain who now suggests that the good old system of garbage bins be brought back.
It is going by this proposal that BBMP will place bins - not one but two; one for wet and the other for dry waste - for people to put garbage in. The points at which these bins will be placed are referred to as black spots, from where the bins will be periodically emptied by the BBMP.
These bins won't be permanent structures but movable ones, to facilitate clearance.
"BBMP invited quotations from interest parties to provide these bins. Three people have shown interest but BBMP is yet to take a final decision on it," said an official to Bangalore Mirror.
According to Darpan Jain, it is proposed to install bins compatible with compactors at black spots on a pilot basis, at least two for each ward at one point. The cost of each bin is around Rs 30,000. Jain has thus recommended approval of Rs 50,000 for each ward, which works out to around Rs 1 crore for all the 198 wards. BBMP administrator T M Vijay Bhaskar and commissioner G Kumar Naik have given their approvals for the procurement of these bins.
BBMP technical advisory committee member and urban expert R K Misra blames the citizens for creating these blackspots. "Citizens are equally responsible for creating these points. We only care for our family but not for society. This wrong sense of family honour makes us dump garbage in the open and later we blame the civic body for not clearing it," he said.

http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/civic/Will-2-bins-per-locality-keep-garbage-away/articleshow/47994213.cms?

For population of cities in India,  we need public places garbage collection system round the clock.  Practical difficulties need to be understood from the citizen perspective that every citizen will not be able to hand over the garbage to collectors.  

Providing these bins with proper system of collection by contractor can  regain Bangalore cleanliness.  Its responsibility of citizens too not to trhow in open spaces and ensure they drop in those bins only.