Residents suffer waste stink as collection vehicles go off roads

CITY residents are a worried lot as the abrupt discontinuation of door-to-door garbage collection by the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has left them with no other option than to dump their household waste either on the roadside or in drains.

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While dumping garbage on the roads poses both environmental and health risks, their disposal into drains leads to clogging which again worsens the waterlogging situation during rains.

Residents of ward no 52 in Subhadra Nagar said earlier, the waste collection vehicles came to their localities twice or thrice a week. "But the civic body has suddenly stopped door-to-door garbage collection in our locality for the last two months as a result of which we are having to dump them on the roadside," she said.