Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) urged citizens to pay the User Fee to the civic body on time. In a notice, the authority has pointed out on levy of User fees from different users. User fees are collected for waste management services and for which BMC served the notice on 18th October 2019.
According to the reports, BMC shall levy user fees on the waste generators for the waste management services rendered as per the rates given in Schedule- 5 of the Municipal Solid Waste Management Bye-Laws, 2018 and as amended from time to time.
Further, it was revealed that some private agencies engaged in providing sanitation services in the BMC area are collecting user fees from communities. Municipal Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Singh has instructed to serve show cause to concerned agencies for their unfair practice.
BMC appealed: citizens, apartment complexes, bulk waste generators, gated communities, Malls, hotels & restaurants, educational institutions, non-residential schools and colleges, residential schools and colleges, big fast-food chains, health care units, cinema halls and multiplex, showrooms, service centres and garages, marriage halls and Kalyan mandaps, exhibition & fair halls, industries, printing press, Government and private offices, to pay the user fees only to BMC and not to any private agency.
