AHMEDABAD: The war between citizens of Gandhinagar and the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation has led to a drastic fall in garbage collection by sanitation department. Earlier, total garbage collection from the city was around 100-120 tonnes per day which has fallen to 30-35 tonnes.
On August 15, GMC commissioner had announced that municipal sanitation workers will not collect garbage from homes unless the households give it segregated as wet and dry waste. Sanitation workers started strictly implementing his order which led to a clash between citizens and the GMC sanitation workers.
A GMC official on terms of anonymity, said that a senior government official residing in Sector 19, had a verbal spat with sanitation workers who refused to pick up mixed garbage from his house a day ago. “The official was trying to force the workers to take mixed garbage and tried to threaten them. However, workers did not heed to his threats and categorically told him that they will not pick up garbage from his home as it is not segregated,” the official said and added that senior GMC officials had to rush to the spot to convince and calm down the angry government officer.
In the last week, many such incidents took place in the capital city where citizens and door-to-door garbage collection staff clashed. “In one such incident the keys of the garbage truck were snatched away by residents,” the official said.
