Interestingly, even the garbage contractors had not sought the hike. In the meeting, ruling party leader Satyanarayana proposed the hike and the same was immediately okayed by Mayor S K Nataraj.
Protesting against this, K Chandrashekhar of the Congress questioned, “how this hike has been approved when the commissioner and the T&F Committee chairperson has not recommended for it?”
Published 29 October 2010, 18:37 IST