The district administration has chalked out an elaborate programme in the town for the World Environment Day. However, the town suffers from the fact that there is no scientific garbage disposal system in place. The Dibrugarh Municipal Board (DMB) disposes off the garbage generated in the town either at Maijan, right next to the river Brahmaputra, or behind the schools at Graham Bazar. Medical waste produced by the various nursing homes is also carelessly disposed off in these two sites. Students of the schools at Graham Bazar have been complaining of various diseases. Meanwhile, the incinerator at Assam Medical College (AMC) has been lying inoperable for the around five months. The gravity of the whole scenario can be felt by the fact that scrap dealers and rag pickers sort out the disposed saline- bottles, syringes and other items from the garbage dumps at Maijan and Graham Bazar and resell them. So, these products which should have been destroyed, find their way back to re-circulation endangering the lives of people. Some time back, the Pollution Control Board had ordered the nursing homes of Dibrugarh to ensure that the medical waste produced by their establishments was destroyed, failing which their licenses could be revoked. However, there has been no news of any action being taken against defaulting nursing homes. There was much ado about a proposed solid waste management project in Dibrugarh which was supposed to be set up at Lahoal. But, little headway seems to have been made as the authorities have managed to find just fourteen bighas of land against the required thirty bighas to set up the project. Meanwhile, the ban on polythene bags has been welcomed by the people of the town. Unlike other times, the administration has ensured that the prohibition is made effective as these non-biodegradable bags are no longer freely handed out by shopkeepers, grocers and hawkers.