India, May 15 -- It was a small group that assembled for the town hall organised by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday, but those who did make it had some interesting suggestions on the proposed user fee for garbage collection, penalties for littering and spitting in public, and on garbage segregation.

The town hall was organised to discuss the suggestions and objections to the BMC's new draft bye-laws, which propose a user fee on waste collection and increased penalties for littering and spitting.

Held at the BMC headquarters, the town hall saw around ten citizens discuss these subjects with deputy municipal commissioner, solid waste management (SWM), Kiran Dighavkar.

While most of the residents were against the...