nagpur stepping up pressure on the bjpruled nagpur municipal corporation nmc the saffron partys estranged partner shiv sena on wednesday issued an ultimatum to the civic administration to act immediately and end the garbage collection mess within 24 hoursirked over the civic bodys failure to streamline doortodoor waste collection all over the city local shiv sena leaders dumped garbage in front of the nmcs administrative building in civil lines as a symbolic protest the leaders also threatened to dump garbage in mayors and civic chiefs chamber if the situation does not improve on waste disposal frontled by partys publicity incharge nitin tiwari sena leaders submitted a memorandum to deputy municipal commissioner rajesh mohite stating that citizens have been anguished over poor garbage collection across the city even though the nmc has appointed two new operators to collect garbage it is the responsibility of the governmentappointed committee on garbage to find a remedy to the ongoing problem tiwari saidas part of the protest tiwari along with sena workers entered the nmc building premises carrying garbage in sacks and boxes on their head they raised slogans against the ruling bjp civic administration and both the new garbage collection agencies ag enviro and bvg indiasince the two new firms took over the job from ousted kanak resources and management limited on november 16 doortodoor garbage collection has gone for a toss now the entire city has turned into a dumping yard he alleged even though the city generates around 1255mt of garbage every day both the operators could lift not even half of this quantity garbage lying in many areas in the city is posing health risk to the citizens the sena leader saidtiwari further alleged that the new agencies were using nmcowned vehicles to collect garbage instead of their ownthe sena workers also pointed out that though the nmc has appointed the new agencies by hiking earlier garbage lifting charge of rs1465 per mt to rs1950 per mt yet the city resembles a dumping yardtoi witnessed that even on wednesday the situation across the city has not improved many citizens too called these correspondents and expressed helplessness over the crisisag enviro and bvg on wednesday pressed 186 and 217 minitippers respectively and till 6pm the operators collected 717mt garbage the work to lift garbage will continue till late night said nmcs health officer sanitation dr sunil kamblemeanwhile municipal commissioner abhijit bangar convened a meeting with representatives of both the agencies and gave two days ultimatum to improve their services 78 residents fined owing to irregular lifting of garbage under doortodoor collection citizens have started dumping waste in open places and alongside roads even as the civic body is trying to improve collection its nuisance detection squad fined 78 residents hawkers shopkeepers and establishments for dumping garbage in open places and by roadsides between november 16 and november 19 and collected rs34600 fine from them at many places people opposed the penal actionno response to tollfree numbersthough the nmc had