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But mess at secondary garbage collection points is defeating its efforts,” said MC medical officer (health) Dr Vipul Malhotra.Another official of the MC said, “The agency was supposed to clear secondary points of garbage in a day or two post their protest. LUDHIANA: The municipal corporation has served a show-cause notice on A2Z Waste Management Limited, the agency assigned the job of garbage collection in city, for dereliction of duty.To protest against “non-payment of dues by the civic body”, the company had not lifted waste from secondary garbage collection points on September 13. The MC is conducting special sanitation drives, but the agency’s sluggish functioning is going against the civic body.”Dr Malhotra said, “We have served a notice on the company for dereliction of duty. In the wake of Centre’s ‘Swachhta hi seva’ fortnight programme, the civic body is holding rallies to create awareness. “Even as it resumed work the next day, many roads are still dotted with heaps of garbage due to the agency’s tardy pace of lifting..