Ahmedabad: The war between residents of Gandhinagar and Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation has led to a drastic decline in garbage collection by the Department of Sanitation.
Previously, the total garbage collection from the city was around 100-120 tons per day which had fallen to 30-35 tons.
On August 15, the GMC commissioner has announced that city sanitation workers will not collect garbage from home unless the household gives it separated as wet and dry waste.
Sanitation workers began to strictly apply their orders which caused clashes between citizens and GMC sanitation workers.
A GMC official in terms of anonymity, said that a senior government official who lives in Sector 19, has verbal saliva with sanitation workers who refuse to take mixture of waste from his home a day ago.
“The official tried to force the workers to take mixed garbage and tried to threaten them.
However, workers did not heed the threat and firmly told him that they would not take garbage from his house because it was not separated,” the official said and added that senior GMC officials must be Rushed to a place to convince and calm down.
Angry government officers.
In the past week, many such incidents occurred in the capital city where residents and door collecting staff to the door clashed.
“In one such incident, the keys to the garbage truck were taken by residents,” the official said.