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GHMCs lopsided policies irk denizens
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Commissioner and Special Officer’s 100-day plan with a slew of projects may prove to be costly for the ruling TRS to face the upcoming election. Several former corporators as well as secretaries and presidents of resident welfare associations feel that the projects are lopsided and do not tackle the main issues that plague the city.
Crores of rupees are earmarked for community gyms, e-libraries but there is no mention of rainwater harvesting pits and lifting garbage.Resident welfare associations are fuming over GHMC apathy
Grandiose 100-day plans
- 1000 e-libraries that would be managed by local communities
- 1000 gymnasiums in community halls and other public buildings
- 1000 small playgrounds for basketball and badminton
- 200 model vegetable markets
- Multi-purpose halls in 24 areas to be built at Rs 2 crore each
Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Commissioner and Special Officer’s 100-day plan with a slew of projects may prove to be costly for the ruling TRS to face the upcoming election. Several former corporators as well as secretaries and presidents of resident welfare associations feel that the projects are lopsided and do not tackle the main issues that plague the city.
V B Chelikani Rao, honorary president, Tarnaka Residents Welfare Association says, “The biggest problem that the city is facing is the depletion of groundwater and the GHMC has no plan on rainwater harvesting pits. Since 2012, the GHMC has not done anything on this front. The priorities are lopsided.” A senior official of GHMC’s town planning wing said the rainwater harvesting scheme was started during M T Krishna Babu’s tenure and Somesh Kumar, Special Officer and Commissioner do not want to take it forward.
With the GHMC elections being the top priority for the TRS, the projects being taken up are being viewed with skepticism especially by resident welfare associations. Ashwin Nallari Naidu, secretary, United Federation of Resident Welfare Associations, Alwal Circle says, “There is no transparency in the GHMC projects. No audit done in GHMC ever since 2007. We have written several times but there is no response. As far as the projects are concerned, they do not help the common man.
What is the use of constructing a graveyard in up market Jubilee Hills?” He further added, “The corporation wants to take up e-libraries but it has failed in total computerisation of its 18 circles. A majority of its staff are computer illiterates.” Srividya, secretary, Sree Apartments, Sainathapuram says, “We have spent Rs 3 lakh in the last five years just to get water tankers.
There are several apartments coming up in the vicinity but none has proper rainwater harvesting pits. The GHMC only wants to collect advance tax. In the last two months, the roads were dug up twice and the mud is strewn all over.” Members of the GHMC unions too say that the 100-day plan is too ambitious and the targets cannot be met. The plans may have an adverse effect on the GHMC polls.
By:T P Venu
