Summary:
CORPORATORS across party lines on Monday — during the general body meeting — objected to the Solid Waste Management department’s deadline of discontinuing garbage collection from bulk generators from October 2. Following the meeting, the group leaders met civic chief Ajoy Mehta and discussed their demands to relax the deadline. After hearing the arguments of the group leaders during their meeting held on Monday, Mehta has made certain relaxations to the deadline. During the meeting, corporators demanded that the civic body’s circular asking for discontinuing collection of garbage from commercial and residential buildings, which produce more than 100 kg of solid waste daily, be scrapped. Shaikh said the SWM department was deliberately trying to create an environment of panic among people by imposing such a deadline..