Ranchi: Alarmed at the deterioration of door-to-door trash collection here, Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) held a special board meeting on Monday in which the deputy mayor asked the outsourced agency tasked with the sanitation of 33 of its 53 wards to shape up by June-end or ship out.

This meeting was called on the request of a dozen ward councillors who demanded more safai workers in each ward and more vehicles to transport collected garbage to the Jhiri dump yard at Ratu.

Mumbai's RMSW Pvt Ltd, hired in 2015, and whose poor performance caused it to be debarred last year - it can't apply for new RMC contracts - came in for sharp censure.

"Door-to-door garbage collection has totally collapsed in the capital. Only main roads and prime localities are clean, the rest stink. The firm (RMSW) has no coordination with councillors," said ward 26 councillor Arun Kumar Jha.

Deputy mayor Sanjeev Vijayvargiya conceded this anger was justified. "This firm was debarred in the past. We served (it) an ultimatum to improve quality of service by June-end. Else RMC will terminate the contract," he said.

RMC looks after the rest of the 20 wards. But, sanitation and civic maintenance in all 53 wards was reviewed in Monday's meeting.

RMC spokesperson Naresh Sinha said in each ward, safai workers were deployed as per need, based on RMC's survey of area, length of roads and drains. "But some councillors raised doubts over the accuracy of the RMC survey. So it was decided that groups of four to five councillors will check the ground realities."

The recent delimitation of wards also confuses safai workers - right now, RMC has 2,000 - regarding their area.