30,000 households support GHMC initiative

Transporting segregated waste

​Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has carried along with it about 30,000 households in effectively implementing its flagship programme that emphasises 'united' family and 'separated' waste.

Termed ‘Parivar Saath-Saath, Kachra- Alag Alag’, aka ‘Kutumbalu Kalavali; Chetta Veru –Veru kavali’, it is intended to propagate the concept of transporting dry and wet garbage in two separate vehicles right from the households.

GHMC Commissioner B Janardhan Reddy said that the 47 swachh autos on Tuesday carried segregated dry and wet garbage from the Saket and Mallapur transfer stations to the treatment site at Jawaharnagar dump yard.

Such vehicles, with segregated dry and wet waste, would surely bring about a paradigm shift in the way waste management was perceived, he said. It was now amply clear that for effective solid waste management, source segregation was the key.

Since how to achieve effective solid waste management system was a million dollar question, the GHMC had shown the way, the Commissioner said.

Reddy said that the GHMC had accomplished the complete chain of waste management i.e. from the source of generation- household --to the swachh auto to the transfer station and from there to the landfill site – by transporting waste in a totally segregated manner.

The corporation conducted review meetings every Tuesday and closely monitored 2,000 swachh autos and appointed swachh volunteers to ensure segregation of waste. He claimed that the corporation even offered cash rewards for responsible residents in this regard.

Janardhan Reddy said that over 20,000 personnel had been working relentlessly, striving to improve the sanitation situation.

The health and sanitation wing used technology very effectively and communicated in real time to ensure that the entire loop of waste collection to transportation and carrying to treatment site was achieved.

"Let it not stop with a single truck. The GHMC is determined to show the way to the entire country in 2017", he remarked.