Overview
- Residents who had blocked more than 150 trucks since February 16 near the Bellahalli processing unit ended their protest, and authorities restored the capped flow of about 70 vehicles a day.
- Officials say previous diversions sent nearly 400 trucks to Bellahalli, breaching its limit and fuelling anger, while parallel stoppages near Doddaballapur saw BJP MLA Dheeraj Muniraju join residents opposing additional waste vehicles.
- The state approved a ₹550-crore package for infrastructure around landfill and processing zones, with phase-one allocations cited as ₹90 crore each for Mahadevapura, Byatarayanapura and Yeshwanthpur, ₹50 crore for Anekal, ₹20 crore for Bengaluru South and ₹10 crore for Doddaballapur.
- Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar warned of action under the Essential Services Maintenance Act against those blocking trucks and threatened retaliatory steps, which BJP leaders dismissed as bluster.
- Bengaluru generates roughly 6,000 tonnes of waste daily, and officials caution the network of peripheral sites remains strained and vulnerable to fresh pile-ups if further blockades resume.