GHMC delivers its clean promise

100 Days Action Plan
Eliminates 764 of 1,116 open garbage points

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) eliminated 764 open vulnerable garbage points (VGP) out of 1,116 identified in all 24 circles in the city. The incredible feat was achieved within 100 days, as proposed by the Municipal Administration and Urban Development minister K Taraka Rama Rao.

Speaking to The Hans India, GHMC commissioner B Janardhan Reddy said that the civic body opted for the Kapra circle from 1,116 open VGPs on a pilot basis, since it has numerous critical problems. “It was followed by LB Nagar and RK Puram,” he said.

Explaining about turning open VGPs into 100 per cent open dumping free, he said that the GHMC allocated auto tippers and tricycles to ensure door-to-door garbage collection from every household.

The GHMC Commissioner said that in order to ensure garbage collection SFAs and sanitary jawans deployed for time to time monitoring. “Besides this, the GHMC also have conducted awareness campaigns, installed dashboards placards indicating penalty and punishment for open dumping,” he informed.

“Round the clock vigilance by sanitation workers was kept at every open garbage point to educate citizens about the health hazards of open dumping,” he added.

The Corporation also handed over challan book to sanitation jawans to penalise citizens, if they dumped garbage in open places. The Corporation officials decorated the open garbage points with colourful rangolis and planted saplings, where there was facility. “We also appointed a swachh volunteer for each VGP and fixed responsibility to eliminate them,” he said.

The GHMC commissioner informed that the same practises will be implemented in all remaining 362 VGPs and hoped that within a few days Hyderabad will turn into an open garbage point less city.