The system for collecting garbage from every household has collapsed: out of 523 sanitation vehicles, 200 have become scrap. The plan to buy new ones is stuck in the new rules.

The system for collecting garbage from every household in Patna's all 75 wards has collapsed. The municipal corporation's cleaning fleet itself is dilapidated. Out of the 523 sanitation vehicles, about 200 have become junk, and it is no longer possible to repair them. The second floor of the multilevel parking near Patna Junction has become a graveyard for these condemned vehicles. Meanwhile, the proposal to purchase new vehicles has been stuck in files for nine months. The Urban Development Department has outsourced...