Bengaluru, 16 Oct

Biocon Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Thursday once again highlighted the issue of garbage management in metropolitan cities, including Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru.

Mazumdar-Shaw alleged that the municipalities in big cities have failed to resolve the "serious malaise."

"Garbage is a serious malaise countrywide, and no municipality of big cities has managed to solve it. Indore and Surat seemed to have cracked it, but Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, etc, haven't," she wrote on X.

She attributed a lack of civic sense among citizens and apathy in the administration as the primary causes behind the garbage problem in cities.

"Very, very pathetic, which shows citizens' lack of civic sense n huge apathy by both citizens n administration. We lack pride," she said.

She was responding to journalist Sucheta Dalal's X post holding the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation responsible for the garbage dumped at Bandra East in Maharashtra's Mumbai.

Mazumdar-Shaw on Wednesday had said, "We are in this dire situation because of past Govts' failure to act in time. This Government has the opportunity to change this."

"All I am seeking is garbage clearance and road resurfacing, which ought to be done by the (Greater Bengaluru Authority) GBA. Govt Ministers need to hold them responsible and accountable for shoddy and slow work... If the garbage mafia is not doing their job then we (should," Shaw wrote in another post.

State Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar had on Wednesday highlighted the efforts being made by the GBA.

Similarly, GBA Chief Maheshwar Rao held a meeting with Civil Engineers on Wednesday to identify 100 critical issues to the road infrastructure. Mazumdar-Shaw on Thursday lauded the initiative, and hope that the repair works wouldn’t be “shoddy”.