madurai with floating population in lakhs also thronging the city on the occasion of diwali madurai corporation is geared up to ensure that garbage mainly cracker waste scattered in residential and commercial areas of madurai city post celebrations is removedacross 100 wards of the city around 5000 sanitary workers are deployed by the corporation for garbage collection we have already taken preparatory measures and deployed sanitary supervisors and workers prioritizing areas such as markets where there are more crowds gathering or have higher population they will be engaged in sanitation and disinfection they were actively at work on sunday and will resume work on tuesday said dr vinothkumar city health officer the highest amount of garbage including market and cracker waste accumulate two days before and after diwali apart from the festival dayinstructions have been given to clear garbage by working in shifts in areas identified as most garbageprone currently about 750 tonnes of garbage is collected across madurai city daily on sunday evening garbage was getting accumulated especially in the commercial areas by monday cracker waste will start piling up for two days after that we expect collection to increase significantly said an official residents have been urged to be responsible while bursting fire crackers and separate cracker waste as much as possibleresidents meanwhile are hoping that there will be no delay in clearing the roads of garbage on the day after diwali there is already heaps of garbage being left behind by roadside vendors and shoppers including paper plates and cups cloth and plastic wastes this garbage will get removed only by tuesday additionally people will start bursting fire crackers on the roads on monday if it rains it will be even worse said k vasan a resident of vilakkuthoon