The award, handed over to PMC officials at a conference of civic bodies held at Mysore last week, hailing the civic body's excellence in solid waste management will be returned after leaders of various political parties including Congress and Shiv Sena raised the issue of alleged atrocities on Marathi speaking people in Karnataka and the controversial dissolution of the Belgaum civic body.
"In view of the sentiments expressed by various political parties in PMC, it has been decided to return the award for which PMC was selected from about 200 civic bodies in the country," City mayor Vaishali Bankar (NCP) said here today.
A decision to this effect was taken at an all party meeting of PMC on Monday, which also resolved to send a communication to Karnataka government condemning its posture as regards Marathi population in the disputed border areas.
