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We Lack Pride: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw's Garbage Crisis Warning for Big Cities

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has raised serious concerns about the garbage crisis plaguing India's major cities. She specifically called out Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru for their failure to manage urban waste effectively. The Biocon chief blamed both municipal authorities and citizens for showing apathy toward cleanliness. Her comments come amid ongoing infrastructure debates and poor rankings in national cleanliness surveys.

Key Points: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Slams Garbage Mismanagement in Major Cities

  • Flags garbage as serious nationwide malaise affecting major metropolitan cities
  • Criticizes municipal and state governments for gross negligence
  • Highlights citizen apathy and lack of civic sense as contributing factors
  • Notes only Indore and Surat have successfully managed waste crisis
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We lack pride: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw flags garbage issue in big cities, calls out misgovernance 

Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw calls out garbage crisis in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, blaming civic apathy and citizen negligence amid infrastructure failures.

"We lack pride - Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw"

Mumbai, Oct 16

Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Thursday raised serious concerns over garbage emerging as a "serious malaise" in the country, particularly in big metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and others.

She also slammed the respective municipalities of these cities, as well as state governments, for their gross ignorance and negligence of the issue, which has been reaching alarming levels lately and posing a serious threat to the well-being of citizens.

Kiran Shaw’s flagging of garbage and filth in Mumbai comes in the backdrop of her online stand-off with the Karnataka government over the ‘creaking’ infrastructure of Bengaluru and accumulating waste in the city.

Taking to X, the country's leading woman industrialist highlighted the city’s crumbling infrastructure and poor garbage management; however, this prompted a quick retort and rebuttal from Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar and other ministers.

Unfazed by criticism, the leading entrepreneur on Thursday shared a video of garbage and filth littered around a water reservoir, apparently from Bandra East (Mumbai) and called out the apathy and callousness of the city administration.

“Garbage is a serious malaise countrywide and no municipality of big cities has managed to solve it. Indore and Surat seemed to have cracked it but Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru etc haven’t,” she said in a post on X, while sharing the video of a waste-littered water body, posted by an X user.

“Very very pathetic which shows citizens lack of civic sense and huge apathy by both citizens and administration. We lack pride,” she added.

Shaw’s criticism of the big cities comes in line with their poor ranking on multiple national and international indexes, ranging from clean air to cleanliness to traffic snarls.

Delhi, Mumbai, as well as Bengaluru have failed to find a ‘respectable’ ranking in Swachh Sarvekshan -- a yearly ranking exercise undertaken by the Central government to assess cleanliness.

Delhi has been battling with toxic air for years, Mumbai with traffic snarls, while Bengaluru often gets choked due to poor roads and traffic congestion, the videos of which have often surfaced on social media, creating embarrassment for the ruling dispensation, while also projecting a sorry figure of the city's infrastructure before the world.

- IANS

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Rohit P
While I appreciate Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw speaking up, we citizens are equally responsible. How many of us actually segregate waste or avoid littering? Change starts with us too.
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Aditya G
Bengaluru resident here. The garbage crisis is real and affecting our daily lives. The authorities only wake up when someone influential points it out. Sad state of affairs. 😔
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Sarah B
As someone who recently visited Delhi, I was shocked by the garbage piles everywhere. For a country with such rich heritage and culture, this is really disappointing.
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Karthik V
If Indore and Surat can become clean cities, why can't our metros? It's about political will and proper implementation. Our cities deserve better governance.
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Nisha Z
The garbage problem is directly linked to public health. We're seeing more diseases because of this. Time for serious action from both government and citizens. 🏥

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