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Tenders for 5 junk stations not yet issued
Posted by Srini Uppala | November 16, 2007 | 254 views
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Loading ...Almost a year has passed since the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) proposed to construct five garbage transfer stations in surrounding municipalities, but the Rs 10-crore project is yet to take off. Even the process of inviting tenders has not started. Five garbage transfer stations were to come up in the municipalities of Rajendranagar, Malkajigiri, Kapra, Kukatpally and LB Nagar at a cost of Rs 10 crores.
A big city like Greater Hyderabad needs at least half-a-dozen more garbage transfer stations to solve the garbage problem. The core city or the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad have three transfer stations already to its credit.
A garbage transfer station is a place where garbage lifted from lanes and bylanes is taken by vehciles and dumped. From these transfer stations, heavy vehicles pick up the garbage and dispose it off at dumping yard in Jawaharnagar. Small vehicles including mini lorries are used to pick up garbage from narrow lanes and by-lanes. The heavy vehicles which shift garbage from transfer stations have capacity to take three to four loads of mini lorries.
Municipalities of LB Nagar, Kukatpally, Malkajgiri, Kapra, Uppal, Qutbullapur, Alwal, Rajendernagar, Serilingampally, Gaddiannaram, Ramachandrapuram and Patancheru which are now part of Greater Hyderabad generate 1,260.24 metric tonnes of solid waste a day with 636 open points. MCH area generates close to 2,500 metric tonnes and total solid waste is 3,760 metric tonnes.
GHMC additional commissioner (health&sanitation) R. Rama Mohan Rao admitted that the garbage transfer stations project had been delayed. “We are speeding up the process of inviting tenders. The project will take off in a few days from now,” he said.
SOURCES:
Deccan Chronicle
Topics: Public Concerns, Govt Failures, Health |
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