New Dictum: Garbage Can Get Marriages Done in Hyderabad
2 months ago

New Dictum: Garbage Can Get Marriages Done in Hyderabad

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Garbage may be an eyesore for all, but don’t just trash it yet. “It is becoming a practice for operators of Swach auto tippers collecting trash from homes, especially in the newer city areas with tall residential towers, to promise guaranteed incomes to potential grooms through trash collection charges,” according to a city official familiar with this rising trend in the city. “We have also come across some instances where promissory notes were handed over to grooms guaranteeing such monthly income, something like a guaranteed dowry by SAT operators, who performed marriages of their daughters in this manner,” the official said. Sources said that a proposal to introduce battery operated vehicles for collecting garbage from homes by Ramky, the concessionaire contracted to collect and process all garbage in the city, is pending amid fears of a backlash from SAT operators, who may go on strike to protect their incomes. A GHMC official said that the civic body hopes to introduce a hybrid system where both the existing SATs and the proposed system can coexist but no decision has been taken as yet.

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Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation to take tech route to tackle improper waste disposal crisis
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation to take tech route to tackle improper waste disposal crisis

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has introduced a stringent system to tackle littering and illegal waste disposal across the city. Citizens caught littering roads, dumping construction and demolition waste or discarding garbage improperly will now receive instant e-challans. The new system expands beyond general littering to penalise improper disposal of all waste types, including C&D debris. He emphasised that …

People slam GHMC for garbage dumping on roads
3 months, 3 weeks ago

People slam GHMC for garbage dumping on roads

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is facing criticism for its failing to address the issue of garbage dumping on roads. Despite distributing wet and dry waste bins for door-to-door collection, many areas continue to be cluttered with garbage, which causes inconvenience to commuters by blocking roads. Some people also allege that SAT vehicles dump collected waste back onto roads, …

Hyderabad devises action plan to remove trash from streets
10 months ago

Hyderabad devises action plan to remove trash from streets

The Hindu  

The area is Vengalrao Nagar, and a woman in plain sari accosts a youth on a two-wheeler. Self help group volunteers posted at hundreds of garbage vulnerable points across the city have been doing this every day since 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., in order to dissuade irresponsible littering of public spaces and to bridge the gap between Swachh Auto …

GHMC rejects revising garbage collection rates, unauthorised hike continues unchecked
1 year, 10 months ago

GHMC rejects revising garbage collection rates, unauthorised hike continues unchecked

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The GHMC standing committee on Friday rejected a proposal to revise the user charge for door-to-door garbage collection. Raj Kumar, vice-president of Manjeeranagar Colony in old Alwal, said that every house in the colony had been paying garbage collectors Rs 150 for five months. Mariam Mahfooz of Paltan slum in Malakpet said that the GHMC staff charged Rs 80 …

Row over garbage collection at Secunderabad Cantonment Board
2 years, 10 months ago

Row over garbage collection at Secunderabad Cantonment Board

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Secunderabad Cantonment Board residents differ over garbage collection. While a few are in favour of the new garbage collection system, others alleged that garbage collector is demanding money from residents to clear garbage. “The collection agent was taking signatures of residents by blackmailing them to pay the monthly association maintenance amount of Rs 100 and Rs 200 directly to …

SCB Residents not happy with new garbage collection plan
2 years, 10 months ago

SCB Residents not happy with new garbage collection plan

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Secunderabad Cantonment Board on Thursday initiated the new door-to-door garbage collection system, by roping in around 300 workers and assigning them various streets and colonies. The new system is aimed at streamlining the hitherto unorganised process, by following the solid waste management rules. The move, however, has not gone down well with several resident welfare associations, which are …

Concerns over SCB’s garbage collection proposal
3 years, 1 month ago

Concerns over SCB’s garbage collection proposal

Deccan Chronicle  

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 …

Secunderabad roads turn garbage dump yards
3 years, 3 months ago

Secunderabad roads turn garbage dump yards

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Disposal of garbage in open areas continues to be commonplace in several areas of the Secunderabad cantonment. While garbage is cleared from trash bins on alternate days, irresponsible disposal of waste in open areas and areas around the bins are making life difficult for the residents. There is no door-to-door waste collection in densely populated areas like Karkhana Bazar, …

Cash-starved GHMC to generate revenue by selling scrap
3 years, 11 months ago

Cash-starved GHMC to generate revenue by selling scrap

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is leaving no stone unturned for generating revenues. These include seized illegal hoardings, flexies and banners dumped at the warehouse beneath Begumpet flyover. Though GHMC generally ignores illegal hoardings, officials claim they have been strictly implementing Public Properties Defacement Act. After a special drive during the same year, it removed over 20,000 illegal hoardings apart …

Greater Hyderabad residents are paying twice for garbage
5 years, 1 month ago

Greater Hyderabad residents are paying twice for garbage

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Property tax payers under the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation appear to be paying twice for the same service. The GHMC collects about Rs 1,400 crore per year as property tax to fund services including the door-to-door collection of garbage. It has also been charging an additional `1,000 crore from property tax payers for providing the same door-to-door garbage collection …

Hyderabad: Now, drive to collect debris
5 years, 4 months ago

Hyderabad: Now, drive to collect debris

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: After successfully conducting a 10-day special drive to collect scrap, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is to embark on a drive to collect debris from every household. Corporation Commissioner Mr DS Lokesh Kumar said that in order keep tourist spots clean, they would engage a private agency for upkeep of sanitation. The civic body Commissioner said that nearly 235 metric …

Hyderabad: Trash collection data misleading
5 years, 4 months ago

Hyderabad: Trash collection data misleading

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The haphazard paper work by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation once again came as a shocker when officials declared that the amount of garbage carried from the city is 7,000 metric tonnes. Surprisingly, the civic body has no counter check and they have been entirely depending on the private agency which has been weighing the garbage at Jawahar Nagar …

Hyderabad: Littering to be penalised
5 years, 11 months ago

Hyderabad: Littering to be penalised

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The GHMC has decided to penalise citizens for dumping trash on the roadsides and in their colonies. The corporation has also decided to impose fines on the owners if garbage is dumped in their vacant land parcels. According to the new plan, the corporation will identify the open garbage dumping points and study the reason for trash being dumped …

Hyderabad: Waste management bungled up
6 years, 2 months ago

Hyderabad: Waste management bungled up

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s waste management policy of handing over transfer stations at Nagole, Yusufguda and Patancheru to the concessionaire Hyderabad Integrated Municipal Solid Waste has again met with stiff resistance from union leaders. “The agreement with the private concessionaire makes it binding on the municipal corporation to hand it over to them or invite litigation,” says Mr Srinivas …

Hyderabad: Open sorting of trash causes health hazard
6 years, 4 months ago

Hyderabad: Open sorting of trash causes health hazard

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With sorting and segregation of new municipal waste still being done in the open, the residents in 35 villages around Jawaharnagar state that they are exposed to a major health hazard. The government had assured the residents that once the capping is complete, sorting of new waste will be done in a closed enclosure and other dumping grounds will …

GHMC turns land into garbage dump yard, denies in court
7 years, 4 months ago

GHMC turns land into garbage dump yard, denies in court

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Residents of Nallagandla have sought legal intervention to save a rock garden that they allege has been turned into a dump yard by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. The GHMC officials said that there was no waste being dumped there, but then why has the Pollution Control Board issued a letter cautioning the GHMC against the unscientific me-thod of …

Only 30% waste in Hyderabad recycled
11 years, 4 months ago

Only 30% waste in Hyderabad recycled

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Hyderabad generates nearly 4,000 tonnes of waste daily. Many individuals and resident welfare associations, at the local and community levels are initiating measures to reuse the waste in a bid to become zero-waste households. Rao Chelukani, president of United Federation of Resident Welfare Associations and the president of the Standing Committee of Tarnaka Residents Welfare Associations, said, “Our aim …

Door to door collection of household waste on cards in Patiala
12 years, 5 months ago

Door to door collection of household waste on cards in Patiala

Hindustan Times  

To improve the efficiency of waste collection and disposal of household waste, the Patiala Municipal Corporation is mulling to launch a door-to-door garbage collection. To be implemented under the solid waste management project of the Punjab government, the civic body is planning to hire a company, which after lifting the waste would treat it scientifically. On Monday, the House would …

Clean hearted
15 years, 1 month ago

Clean hearted

Hindustan Times  

He looks up as a firecracker whooshes up into the night sky and bursts into thousands of twinkling stars. HT Image “I will cook here on the pavement and not bother her when I reach home.” Setting a few twigs afire, Dayal places a pan on the makeshift stove. “An MCD truck will come to empty my trolleys.” Dayal arrived …

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