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Vadodara: Smoke continued to emanate from the solid waste dumping site at Jambuva in the southern part of the city. The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has been struggling to manage the situation since one week now.The fire had initially started on Friday and the VMC had a tough time controlling it. “The Gujarat Pollution Control Board can file a criminal complaint against the VMC in the court,” he said. Despite this, VMC has not even brought out an advisory regarding the situation,” Prajapati said.He suggested that experts should be roped in to handle issues related to solid waste.Prajapati said that merely issuing notices to the VMC was not enough. “If this had been done, the fire would have been controlled much easily,” he said.Environmentalist Rohit Prajapati said that that the fire was a health hazard as materials like plastics would have caught fire.“It can have a chronic long-term effect on the health of people..