Thane residents have been complaining about uncollected garbage accumulated in lanes and by lanes over the past few days, which is responsible for a foul stench. Irate with the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) for, allegedly, not collecting the waste, local political workers dumped trash outside the civic body’s headquarters as a show of protest.

However, downplaying the issue, TMC officials, including the deputy municipal commissioner of Thane, claimed that they had already collected 11,000 tonnes of waste and were in the process of setting up two new refuse treatment plants.