Development works, including implementation of several projects under the Government subsidy scheme and also the National Slum Development Programme have come to grinding halt for nearly four months following the failure of the municipal council to approve these works for want of quorum at its monthly meetings. He said about 30 tonnes of garbage was being cleared every day in Chengalpattu town in Tamil Nadu and pointed out that the municipality had to meet the sanitary requirement of nearly one lakh people in the town every day including a floating population of 40,000.