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GHMC to propagate waste management through caller tune

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has come up with an idea of introducing a caller tune to propagate the importance of recycling and segregating garbage in the city limits.

About 1,600 mobile phones have been provided to all officials at various levels. Anyone who calls up the officials would hear a small advice on the need to reduce the quantum of garbage, how it can be recycled and reused.

“On an average, each official receives at least 50 calls a day. Therefore, at least 1.40 lakh people would learn about the sanitation process through the new caller tune,” said GHMC Commissioner B Janardhan Reddy.

He added that the main idea behind the caller tune is to motivate residents and involve them in the day-to-day sanitation activities for better administration.

Whenever a citizen calls the GHMC official phone, he/she will hear the caller tune which explains the effective utilisation of waste.

Meanwhile, the GHMC Commissioner on Thursday made a surprise visit to Hindi Nagar and Dwarakapuri Colony in circle 10B and pointed out many irregularities. Janardhan Reddy warned the officials to ensure that all Sanitary Field Assistants (SFA's) along with sanitary supervisors and AMOHs start imposing punitive fines especially on shops and establishments for throwing garbage in the open.

He directed the officials to motivate all shops and establishments to have their own bins to store dry waste for 4 to 5 days capacity and to give wet waste daily to the respective rickshaw, auto or GHMC vehicle.

Janardhan Reddy also directed sanitation officials to ensure that all the core-area circles analyse their garbage open points, tie-up the lifting timings with the vehicles, analyse the gaps in lifting–shortage of trips and vehicles to be worked out on priority and asked them to submit a report within three days.