The PMC general body had stalled the civic administration proposal saying it need to reconsider the implementation of proposal which was earlier approved by the general body.

The civic administration had already taken up garbage collection through cooperative society of ragpickers and urged the State Government to overrule the general body decision to reconsider the implementation of garbage collection through the society.

“I have directed the PMC to implement the garbage collection through the society with immediate effect,” Deshmukh said at a function of Hamal Panchayat.

However, the State Government in November asked the general body to rethink within 30 days its July 30 decision to shelve the administration’s proposal on the grounds that it was not in public interest. The general body had called for re-tendering of the proposal on garbage collection.

The state urban department has said that the general body has not given any reason while shelving the proposal and that the decision was against public interest while saying that the re-tendering of the proposal would lead to waste of time in execution of the project to collect 500-1000 mega tonne garbage every day.