Tribune News Service Ludhiana July 9 Residents of Kashmir Nagar Road in the city are a harried lot due to the delayed lifting of garbage from the area. They said the Municipal Corporation (MC) had so far failed to improve the solid waste management system in the city. Though the Municipal Corporations F&CC has approved increasing the tipping fee given to a third-party firm for lifting of garbage from secondary waste collection points the firm has failed to lift the garbage timely. Former councillor Inder Aggarwal has questioned as to why the tipping fee was being increased by 25 per cent when the company had failed to lift the garbage timely. The MC had hired the firm without floating tenders. Aggarwal also questioned why a fresh tender was not floated to hire a new firm as per the rules. “The open dumping of garbage on the road is an invitation to various diseases but the MC has failed to pay any attention to the matter. The garbage dump has made the lives of the area residents miserable. The foul smell emanating from the dump makes it difficult for people to cross the road. Moreover the commuters are suffering in routine” he said. “Without floating any tenders the MC wants to continue services with the third-party firm. It indicates that the firm is being benefitted by the ruling party and MC officials in violation of the norms. If the MC fails to improve garbage lifting we will launch an agitation” he added.

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