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INDORE: Citizens will now have to pay user charges for door-to-door garbage collection service on increased rates from Wednesday onwards. Citizens had been demanding for a rebate in monthly user charges for door-to-door garbage collection work. “The service charges have been increased to manage increasing number of staff, number of vehicles and fuel cost,” said officials.The civic body spends Rs160crore annually on door-to-door garbage collection, while it gets only Rs40crore from users. This will be in line to compensate for the loss of Rs120crore that is being borne by IMC for door-to-door garbage collection work.IMC deputy commissioner Lata Agrawal said that user charges will be collected on new rates starting from April 1, 2018. After which a decision in this regard has been taken up by IMC..