GHMC says will remove all open garbage points

GHMC says will remove all open garbage points
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GHMC has decided to conduct a special drive to remove open garbage points in Hyderabad. The total garbage wastes in open places will be removed and volunteers will be appointed to take care that no garbage wastes will be dumped again.

Hyderabad: GHMC has decided to conduct a special drive to remove open garbage points in Hyderabad. The total garbage wastes in open places will be removed and volunteers will be appointed to take care that no garbage wastes will be dumped again.

GHMC Commissioner DS Lokesh Kumar insisted that deputy commissioners and medical officers should ensure the places would not again become garbage dump yards. He suggested measures such as gardening and drawing Rangoli at the cleared spots.

GHMC successfully removed 1,116 vulnerable garbage points previously by conducting a special drive. But after the continuous rains and festivals, more than half of the points again became open garbage points.

Most of them are happened in junctions and commercial places only. MAUD Minister KT Rama Rao had conducted a review meeting and issued orders to GHMC Commissioner to remove all the open garbage points.

WHAT GHMC INTENDS TO DO

  1. Collection of wastes from houses in high extent.
  2. Display of banners to alert people and issuing penalty for the people who throw garbage wastes in open places.
  3. Bringing awareness by announcing publicly to shopkeepers and residents to dump wastes in Swachh vehicle.
  4. Drawing Rangoli at the places where the wastes are removed.
  5. To felicitate people who dump wastes in open places and trying to bring a change in them.
  6. Corporators, colony associations, basthi committees, and welfare organizations should work with GHMC sanitation department to remove exposed garbage points.
  7. Arrangement of CC cameras at the places where the garbage points are removed.
  8. In addition to these, removal of garbage wastes from transfer stations.
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