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BSWML shifts auto-tipper attendance to 5:30–6:30 am from August 25, hoping to curb black spots and improve cleanliness after Bengaluru’s poor national ranking.

Bengaluru’s mornings are set to get a little earlier. From August 25, the city’s auto tippers will begin their attendance marking between 5:30 am and 6:30 am, an hour earlier than the existing schedule. The Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML) says the shift is designed to match the routines of working residents, allowing them to hand over garbage before leaving home while discouraging indiscriminate dumping that leads to black spots across neighborhoods.

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The timing tweak comes at a sensitive time for the city’s image. In the Swachh Survekshan 2025 survey, Bengaluru was listed as the fifth dirtiest Indian city in the over-one-million population bracket, a humiliating position for the country’s tech capital. Civic activists argue that the city’s waste management lapses are undermining the state government’s infrastructure push, leaving global investors and residents alike frustrated with deteriorating public hygiene.

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Other metros that fared poorly include Ranchi, Chennai, Ludhiana, and Madurai, while Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Lucknow, Raipur, and Jabalpur secured the top clean rankings. The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry attributed this year’s results to a revamped evaluation framework, offering smaller cities more equitable scoring.

BSWML has appealed for citizen cooperation, noting that cleaner streets demand collective effort. Whether an earlier start can reverse Bengaluru’s slide in cleanliness remains to be seen, but the city’s residents may soon be waking up to a cleaner dawn.

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