Japanese delegation meets GHMC staff

Hyderabad: A Japanese delegation led by Kosuke and Rubin Taguchi met the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and public health officials and discussed the ways of management and disposal of solid waste material on Thursday. The visitors presented technologies for solid waste management for composting such as RAX screw type composting, ultra black hole at Engineering-in-Chief Public Health Office.

Ryuji Ishibashi, CEO of Iishbashi Crop, and Naomasa Kageyama, CEO of Sanative Line Co Ltd Yoshitaka Totani Sec Gen were among the delegation which also visited Jawahar Nagar dumping yard and observed the capping works.
Miyoshi city Deputy Mayor met Deputy Mayor Baba Fasiuddin.

“The Hyderabad city has developed a lot compared to last visit about five years ago,” said Masaki Takaoka, the Deputy Mayor. Deputy Mayor expressed over GHMC and Japanese team exchanging views on the development of the two cities. Takaoka said he was impressed by the rapid development of the State IT, infrastructure, transportation (metro rail), gardening under flyovers and particularly creating good atmosphere for investments in Hyderabad city from abroad.

There are similarities in cultural activities like Bathukamma festival; there in Japan they also celebrate flower festival etc. While discussing with the team, Baba Fasiuddin said from long back India has good relations with Japan and recalled that in fact Japan has helped late Subash Chandra Bose, who established Azad Hind Fauj, an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 during World War II. Its aim was to secure Indian independence from British rule.

Tsuyoshi Uesugi, advisor to the Mayor, Miyoshi City and members from Asa Bhanu Japan Center attended the meeting.