Bengaluru’s South City Municipal Corporation has introduced evening waste collection in five wards under the Bommanahalli Assembly constituency to accommodate residents who cannot hand over waste during morning collection rounds and to control roadside garbage blackspots.
Commissioner K.N. Ramesh said the new system would operate from 5 pm to midnight, with vehicles collecting both wet and dry waste. The arrangement has been introduced in four wards within the Bommanahalli constituency and Hongasandra ward, according to a report by Prajavani.
The evening schedule is intended to address a routine service gap in Bengaluru’s waste management system. Employees leaving for work in the morning, school and college students, and homemakers may not always be available when regular collection vehicles arrive. The revised timing gives households in the five wards an additional window to hand over segregated waste.
The corporation currently operates 160 vehicles for morning collection across the five wards. In the evening, 20 to 25 autos have been assigned to collect waste, Commissioner Ramesh said. The scale of the evening deployment is therefore smaller than the morning network and is intended to supplement, rather than replace, the existing collection system.
Hongasandra ward has a specific evening deployment of six vehicles. Three autos collect wet waste and three collect dry waste, while 31 autos operate in the ward during the morning. The separation of the evening fleet by waste stream indicates that the new schedule is being organised around the city’s established wet-and-dry waste collection system.
The move also links waste collection to the problem of roadside accumulation. The commissioner said the additional evening round was being introduced to make waste disposal more responsive and to reduce blackspots where garbage is deposited along roads. The report did not provide a separate list of the blackspots covered by the programme or specify the duration of the pilot or revised arrangement.
At the same time, the corporation has initiated action on a parking problem around Agara Lake in HSR Layout. Vehicle congestion and parking pressure have increased in the area, prompting the commissioner to direct officials to prepare and submit a proposal to convert an unused space beneath the flyover in front of JSS Public School into a parking area.
The parking proposal remains at the preparation stage. The source report does not state whether the space has received technical clearance, whether ownership or access issues have been resolved, or how many vehicles the proposed facility could accommodate. No implementation timeline was provided.
For residents, the immediate operational change is the evening waste collection window in the five wards. The corporation’s next stated steps are to run the additional collection vehicles between 5 pm and midnight and to receive a formal proposal on the proposed parking facility near Agara Lake.
