Patna: The Patna City circle of Patna Municipal Corporation is mulling to start mobile garbage collection in the 15 wards of the circle soon.

At present, it is running in wards 52, 53, 54, 66 and 67 of the circle.

The Patna City circle is executing the mobile garbage collection on its own like in the other circles as it has engaged both its contract and permanent workers in the five wards where it has started.

PMC executive officer Sushil Kumar Mishra said ward councillors unanimously put up the proposal of starting mobile garbage collection in the remaining 15 circles at a meeting held on Monday, which mayor Sita Sahu too attended. "It is a proposal at this moment which we are going to submit to the PMC. The corporation has to take the final call," he said.

PMC sources said instructions have been issued by the PMC headquarters to all its four circle offices to keep a vigil on the mobile garbage collection so that it doesn't fail this time.

"The city manager, sanitation inspector and other officials would be asked to carry out surprise inspections to check whether the drive is effective in the wards or not," the source said.

Sources said in Monday's meeting, mayor Sahu also instructed Patna City circle officials to conduct the de-silting work properly.

Sahu's ward number 58 falls in the Patna City circle.

"Serious discrepancies have been found in the de-silting work carried out in the various circles this year. This is the reason PMC commissioner Anupam Kumar Suman has talked about conducting audit of this year's de-silting work, which was done at a cost of around Rs 7.5 crore. Auditors are supposed to be hired from outside. The Patna City circle officials thus don't want to leave any stone unturned in the work," said a source.

"In Monday's meeting, ward councillors also raised questions on the open manholes, defunct mast lights and encroachment over drains. They asked Patna City circle officials to address the issues immediately," sources said.

"Among the councillors who raised the points include Smita Rani, Balram Choudhary, Kiran Mehta, Vinod Kumar, Manoj Mehta, Shekhar Singh among others," added the source.