Mohali, Jan. 30 -- The Mohali municipal corporation's (MC) much-awaited door-to-door segregated garbage collection project has been temporarily deferred following protests by sanitation workers and allegations of poor coordination ahead of its proposed launch. Mayor Amarjit Singh Sidhu on Thursday said that the decision was taken after he sought a report from MC commissioner Parminder Pal Singh on the deteriorating cleanliness situation in the city.

The project was scheduled to be inaugurated on Wednesday, with local MLA Kulwant Singh invited to formally launch it. However, the inauguration could not take place after sanitation workers and existing garbage collectors, backed by the MC's contractual workers' union, gathered in protest out...