nagpur lack of coordination between state government and nagpur municipal corporation nmc and callous attitude on the part of former has cost the civic agency lakhs of rupees nmc has also committed contempt of national green tribunal ngt in the process ngt had ordered all municipal corporations and councils to collect rs3000 from each firecracker shop owner as environment cleanliness charges on the basis of polluter pays principle the money was to be exclusively used for cleaning up the solid waste generated by firecrackers if some money was left after this activity then it was to be used for plantations building public toilets for women creating awareness about bad effects of firecrackers at school level etc ngt had further directed the municipal authorities to take stringent action against shop owners who do not pay the charges the actions include blacklisting or not renewing their licenses in future however in case of nmc the agency did not bother to ask the shop owners to pay up and hence it cannot take any action against them the order was issued on november 6 by the ngt western zone bench of justice vr kingaonkar and dr aa deshpande while hearing a petition filed by nagpurian ravindra bhusari nmc chief fire officer rajendra uchake told toi we did not collect any money from firecracker shop owners as we are not aware of the ngt order state government is more at fault than nmc because the civic agency was not a respondent in this case the state government through its chief secretary was one of the respondents and should have passed on the order to municipal bodies over 1000 firecracker shops are set up in the city every diwali till 2013 nmcs fire department used to issue no objection certificates nocs to them and charge rs2000 per shop it collected between rs15 lakh and rs20 lakh every year from this source had nmc followed ngt order and collected rs3000 from each shop the collection would have been higher this year the ngt had also asked maharashtra pollution control board mpcb and nmc to conduct sampling and analysis of solid waste generated from bursting of firecrackers in order to verify its hazardous contents and thereby adopting necessary waste disposal practices this directive too has not been followedno work order for solid waste management yet the nagpur municipal corporation nmc is callous about implementing another directive of ngt the tribunal had directed nmc in january this year to rope in new private operator for treating solid waste at bhandewadi dumping yard by june hanjer biotech energies pvt ltd was to be ousted nmc had submitted the report prepared by gokhale institute of politics and economics gipe pune on its solid waste tender in the tribunal in midoctober even after ngts green signal nmc is yet to issue work order