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Bullock carts still in demand for transporting waste
The centuries old tradition of use of bullock carts for the transportation of solid waste continues to be in demand in many villages under Panchayat Raj department even during the ‘hi-tech era.’
Hyderabad: The centuries old tradition of use of bullock carts for the transportation of solid waste continues to be in demand in many villages under Panchayat Raj department even during the ‘hi-tech era.’ Bullock carts are one of the significant modes of transportation of waste after rickshaws and auto rickshaws in many habitations in the State.
State Panchayat Raj department made available as many as 300 bullock carts to shift waste and requisitioned the government another 1,235 carts this year. The use of bullock carts is high in Nizamabad with 100 carts followed by Adilabad ( 54), Nalgonda ( 40) , Karimangar (31), Medak ( 30), Rangareddy (23), Warangal (13) and nine carts are being used in Mahbubnagar. It is zero in Khammam.
The officials said that the reason for increasing the use of bullock carts in the habitations was lack of road network for the deployment of autos or rickshaws. Bullock carts are being used in large numbers in Warangal, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Adilabad and Karimnagar districts. The habitations in these districts neither have road network within the village nor are connected to neighbouring areas.
“The traditional use of bullock carts will not be abandoned unless the road network is developed in these areas,” an official said. The revelations came to light in the recent survey conducted under Grama Jyothi programme. The survey report said that only 2,221, out of 22,100 habitations were having dumping yards and the rest of the places are found to not have any dumping yards to dump the waste generated by villagers.
The officials attributed land scarcity as the main reason for not establishing dump yards in majority of the habitations. The officials said the Grama Jyothi programme helped the department to identify lands in some habitations. The dumping yards would be established in 7,600 places this year. The department was already scouting for land in 14,500 habitations. As many as 18,430 rickshaws and another 3,400 autos were required for dump yard transportation in the newly established yards.
