Concerns over SCB’s garbage collection proposal

HYDERABAD: Residents and sanitary workers are finding fault with the Secunderabad Cantonment Board’s new proposal to implement the door-to-door collection of garbage by charging Rs 100 from colonies and Rs 50 from slums. In an effort to provide relief from the garbage menace in the cantonment, the board had launched 15 Swachh auto tippers last month to collect waste from doorsteps in Bowenpally area on a pilot basis. The new proposal was being opposed for potentially putting financial burden on the residents and there was also a chance of the board periodically revising the collection charges, said T. Satish Gupta, a social activist. Sanki Ravinder Babu of Cantonment Vikas Manch said, “The SCB authorities had launched the project with good intentions, but there are issues in the way it is being implemented.” SCB sanitary inspector A. Mahender, however, said nothing had been concretely decided on extending it to all the areas.