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5,300 auto tippers and 700 garbage trucks to go off roads
The New Indian Express Bengaluru
|March 27, 2025
AROUND 5,300 auto tippers and 700 garbage trucks will be off roads from Wednesday evening as cleaners and drivers launch an indefinite strike against the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Solid Waste Management wing, demanding the regularisation of their services.
AROUND 5,300 auto tippers and 700 garbage trucks will be off roads from Wednesday evening as cleaners and drivers launch an indefinite strike against the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Solid Waste Management wing, demanding the regularisation of their services. Hundreds of protestors gathered at the BBMP head office to voice their concern. Anticipating a volatile situation, the police took them into preventive custody but released them later in the evening.
This story is from the March 27, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Bengaluru.
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