India, June 12 -- The Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (Maha-Metro) has granted permission to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to reuse the garbage transfer ramp at the old Kothrud depot for the next four months.

The ramp, shut down on May 15 for metro depot development, will now be used again for garbage segregation and transfer. "We have communicated with the metro authorities, and waste transfer work at the site will restart in the next one or two days," said Sandeep Kadam, deputy commissioner, PMC solid waste management department.

Though the original garbage depot in Kothrud was handed over to Maha-Metro, PMC continued using a 30-gunta (30,000 square feet) section of the land to run a waste transfer ramp for the Warje-Karvena...