Bangalore is now the filthiest city in India, Amiya Kumar Sahu, the president of the National Solid Waste Association of India has said.

Commenting on Bangalore's prevalent garbage crisis, Sahu said, "Bangalore used to be India's cleanest city. Now, it is the filthiest."

The city's garbage predicament grew directly out of its alluring accomplishments. In the 1980s, IT companies started settling in and around Bangalore, and created their own sources of water, electricity and transportation. But the increasing companies and population had nowhere to dispose their trash. Hired truck started dumping the trash in empty lots or willing farmers' fields.

As there was no effective and scientific waste management system, the beautiful city became a city of mounting garbage piles.

Bangalore's chief civil servant Rajneesh Goel also admitted in a recent interview that the city authorities never followed scientific landfill practices.

The ineffective waste management of the authorities attracted the attention of global media. The New York Times recently criticized the ineffective, unscientific waste management in the city in its report titled "India's plague, trash, drowns its Garden City during strike."

Stung by severe criticism over the garbage menace in the city, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar claimed that the government was doing everything in its capability to arrest the problem.