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Garbage piles up on city streets
The municipal corporation authorities are making tireless efforts to identify a suitable place to dump the garbage on a temporary basis and it will take at least another five days, according to officials.
​Vijayawada: As the civic authorities were clueless for the last four days about dumping of garbage, the city streets in dozens of colonies were filled with heaps of garbage.
The municipal corporation authorities are making tireless efforts to identify a suitable place to dump the garbage on a temporary basis and it will take at least another five days, according to officials.
Over 2,000 metric tons of garbage was piled up in the city by Saturday which became a nightmare to the citizens in many colonies of the city.
Every street in the city is affected with unhygienic conditions as municipal workers are dumping the garbage roadside without taking to the dumping yards.
Pedestrians are facing difficulties to walk on the roads because of stink from the garbage. Residents near dumper bins are facing hardship with the continuing foul smell for four days.
The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation has hired nine private vehicles to transport excess garbage, which piled up for the last four days, to Kolanukonda village of Guntur district and old dumping yard located near Pathapadu in Vijayawada rural mandal.
An official said it will take at least 36 hours to empty the excess garbage from the city, if no hurdle created by villagers of Pathapadu and Kolanukonda.
On other hand, the VMC officials visited two sites on Friday at Pathapadu village, near the old dumping yard, where the dumping garbage was stalled because of stiff resistance by local residents for one year.
A site owner expressed his willingness to provide land for dumping. He reportedly gave the gravel quarry site of 2.7 acres on lease basis for dumping the garbage.
VMC executive engineer P V K Bhaskar said the Commissioner suggested the land owner to bring documents to enter into a contract for the use by VMC.
The villager set a condition that the VMC should develop the road to reach the quarry site. The VMC authorities are of the opinion that the proposed waste energy plant at Naidupeta of Guntur district will be ready within two years. It was aimed to fulfill the needs of nine municipalities and Vijayawada and Guntur municipal corporations.
So, the VMC aimed to set up a temporary dumping yard for this short term. However, the Tax Payers Association secretary, M V Anjeneyulu, said that it would be better if the VMC make permanent arrangements to solve the garbage problem as the Naidupet plant will be run by a private company.
The future of the company depends on profits. If the firm would make losses, it would become another Sri Ram energy plant which had been closed in Vijayawada city for 10 years.
