Last week, the Supreme Court took the Centre to task for not taking action to enforce garbage magement rules and refused to accept its voluminous report, calling it nothing but solid waste that the court cannot accept and which the government cannot dump it on the court. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said the Centre has not been able to implement its own law framed in 2016, leading to huge pile-up of garbage across cities (Guwahati is eminent for this) causing vector-borne diseases like dengue and chikungunya. It also said the Centre has failed to persuade States to appoint State-level advisory boards for monitoring and implementing the rules. The court is in favour of strict implementation of the 2016 rules. It has now directed all States to comply with the law. It has asked the Centre to collect information from all States and Union Territories on whether they have set up bodies to frame policies on waste magement. The court has rued that even as there is no paucity of funds because Rs 30,000 crore has been earmarked under the Swachh Bharat Mission, there is a lack of initiative and willingness on the part of the State governments to address the problem of garbage magement.