At a time when the civic administration has been drawing flak for its poor garbage disposal, it will now take up the additional task of clearing garbage from colonies owned by public agencies such as MMRDA and MHADA.
At present, BMC is responsible for managing solid waste from all private layouts, public roads and public layouts excluding layouts falling under MMRDA and MHADA. Following complaints of poor garbage collection from areas such as Lallubhai Compound in Mankhurd and Sangharsh Nagar in Chandivali which do not fall under the BMC jurisdiction, the civic body plans to include other public layouts under its garbage collection plan, officials said.