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TimesView Apart from shifting of garbage stations, the practice of dumping and burning of garbage in open should also be restricted. UP Pollution Control Board should direct LMC to take remedial measures as it has done in the case of transfer stations. "Of four garbage transfer stations in the city, the one at Dubagga was shut in October while another at Vikas Khand, Gomtinagar, was closed on December 3. He said garbage of the two stations, which have been closed, is now sent directly to Shivri waste plant and added that an alternate spots are being searched for the other two garbage stations. Member secretary, UP Pollution Control Board, Ashish Tiwari said: "We had communicated CPCB order to the LMC with direction to comply it within 45 days.".