Mohali, July 25 -- Stung by a dismal performance in the 2024 Swachhta Survekshan rankings, the Mohali Municipal Corporation (MC) is ramping up efforts to ensure proper waste segregation at source, one of its weakest waste management areas, by roping in a private player for door-to-door garbage collection for the first time.

Currently, garbage collection in the city remains disorganised, with both sanitation workers and residents failing to segregate waste at source.

In the rankings announced on July 17, Mohali fell to the 128th spot among 903 cities with population between 50,000 and 3 lakh - a sharp drop from 82nd last year.

Within Punjab, it slipped to the 11th spot among 35 cities, compared to first place last year among cities with...