LUCKNOW, March 3 -- If the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) is to be believed, from next Monday (March 10) Lucknow will become a zero-garbage city, joining a select group of cities like Indore, Pune, Ambikapur (Chhattisgarh), Chandrapur (Maharashtra), and Taliparamba (Kerala), for LMC will dispose of the daily garbage produced by the city.

Till now, of the daily garbage generated in the city - 2,000 to 2,200 metric tonnes - 600 - 700 metric tonnes would go unprocessed. From March 10, the Shivri waste management plant's third processing unit (of 700 metric-tonne capacity) will get operational, tackling the remaining portion of daily waste.

This remaining portion was the main cause of rising legacy waste. The LMC also promises that com...