A walk on a road in any Indian city is incomplete without one stepping in or passing by a mound of garbage. Entitled citizens treating city roads as an open trash bin are unfortunately more common than one would like but one person in Bengaluru hopes to change this.
Jyothish VM
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Read more |Garbage hotspots on rise amid new solid waste management rulesLast month, Jyothish VM launched NammaKasa, a digital platform created using AI that encourages citizens to report garbage blackspots in their localities. “I had been complaining about Bengaluru’s garbage problem like everyone else, talking about it, doing nothing. That frustration had been building for years, and I decided to stop complaining and build something instead,” says the product designer who currently works at a fintech company in the city.
