Ludhiana, Aug. 5 -- Nearly 4,000 metric tonnes of garbage lifted from Ludhiana's roads after the sanitation workers' strike has piled fresh pressure on the city's already overburdened solid waste management plant at Jamalpur, which is equipped to process barely a fraction of the waste generated every day.

According to the municipal corporation, sanitation workers cleared around 4,000 metric tonnes of accumulated waste after the strike ended on August 1.

Municipal corporation' superintendent engineer Sham Lal Gupta said the civic body's sanitation teams worked extensively to restore cleanliness across the city. "Our sanitation team has done a terrific job in clearing the city again," he said.

However, the clearance operation has exposed...