mumbai you may soon have to pay an additional charge to the bmc as user fee for the collection transportation and disposal of garbage generated in your flat the civic administration plans to table a proposal before its political group leaders to levy a user fee on residential and commercial establishments across the city every month in accordance with the national solid waste management rules 2016for instance a household generating less than 100kg of waste per month would need to pay approximately rs 60 while a shop would have to pay rs 90 according to bmc officials the average waste generated per person per day is 450650 gcivic officials said one of the reasons for the move is to ensure that the solid waste management swm department remains selfsufficientthe bmcs revenue sources have taken a hit in recent years with octroi which was the highest source of revenue till 2017 being abolished and replaced with gst and because of a drop in property tax revenue owing to the slump in the real estate sector