BIKANER, Oct. 7 -- Residents in Bikaner said they have been left with accumulated garbage, foul smells and disrupted door-to-door collection for 19 days as the city civic body's new waste-management system failed to take off. The prolonged breakdown exposed the Bikaner Municipal Corporation's failure to ensure timely vehicle mobilisation, ward-wise deployment and proper management of transition, they alleged. The crisis continued on Tuesday when Congress councilors stopped garbage vehicles from leaving the collection centre near Vallabh Garden, a day after chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma gave urban local bodies one month to put sanitation and other civic services in order before Diwali. The previous door-to-door collection arrangement ended on September 16, but the BMC has failed to get the replacement system running. Garbage has continued to pile up across all areas in almost all 80 wards of the city including outside the municipal corporation office. According to an estimate, Bikaner generates around 350 tonnes of garbage a day, while a ground report put the garbage spread across the city during disruption at over 60,000 tonnes. With the traditional pre-Diwali cleaning of homes likely to begin after Shradh Paksha, residents fear a fresh surge in household waste could further strain the collection system. Karuna Gupta, a housewife in Sector-5 of JNVC, Ward 34, said, "If the BMC cannot collect routine garbage, how will it handle the additional waste generated when households clean their homes before Diwali. The BMC had planned 185 tippers for the new system. Twenty-one smaller vehicles were also planned for narrow lanes of the walled city. But only 55 tippers had arrived by September 30 and 80 by October 2. Another 15 vehicles flagged off by the CM from Jaipur on October 3 reached Bikaner by Sunday, leaving about 85 vehicles still awaited. BMC commissioner Sidharth Palnichami did not respond to HT's multiple phone calls and email for comments....