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TimesView BBMP’s revised notification is another step towards streamlining the gargantuan task of waste management and reining in offenders. BENGALURU: In order to curb the garbage menace, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike ( BBMP ) has issued a revised notification making sustainable solid waste management compulsory at public and private events. Prasad clarified that public events are those that take place in venues like fair grounds, open grounds, parks and public-utility earmarked lands belonging to the BBMP, whereas private events are organised within private premises, including educational or religious institutions, sports stadia, hotels, apartments and residencies. Public and private gatherings are a large contributor to Bengaluru’s trash burden with rampant plastic use and haphazard dumping or burning of garbage. Failure to abide by the norms will attract penalties ranging from Rs 2,500 to Rs 2 lakh.The notification issued by BBMP commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad on March 1 said it’s been found that organisers of many events held in public and private places aren’t following solid waste management rules (SWM) and plastic waste management rules 2016..