The development comes in the backdrop of the municipal corporation (MC) officials claiming to have deployed teams for garbage collection at various secondary points in the city
PMC has around 1,400 three, four-wheelers and heavy vehicles for the collection and transportation of garbage. Out of this, around 750 vehicles are heavy vehicles and the maximum are used for solid waste collection and transportation purposes
In 2021, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) monitoring committee had pulled up the civic body for its failure to enforce waste segregation at its source within the city
The civic body had in the past hired 150 vehicles to carry out the project. However, as 161 vehicles from PMC-owned fleet are older than 15 years, often they are not used for garbage transport hire additional vehicles for garbage transport instead of increasing its fleet