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By Express News ServiceKOCHI: The corporation council’s refusal to hand over its three-acre land at Brahmapuram to Indian Medical Association Goes Eco-friendly (IMAGE) for setting up a biomedical waste treatment plant did not succeed after District Collector S Suhas issued an order to hand over the land to IMAGE. However, Mayor Soumini Jain on Thursday postponed the agenda after the opposition demanded more time to study the supplementary agenda. The government’s decision to put pressure on the civic body came in the wake of IMAGE voicing concern over treating massive quantities of biomedical waste from hospitals at its only plant in Palakkad. “If the plant becomes a reality, the whole biomedical waste from the southern district will come to Brahmapuram. “The corporation has huge financial problems and availing a loan of `25 crore will aggravate it further..