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Machines to sweep City’s main roads
Posted by Srini Uppala | January 10, 2008 | 299 views
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Loading ...The Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) will induct four modern street-sweeping machines in the city on Wednesday.
Municipal sweepers, who have been sweeping the roads on the main roads in the night, will stop cleaning the mains road. They would be asked to sweep the interior lanes and bylanes where the sweeping machines cannot enter.
The four machines will sweep a stretch of about 150 km on the main roads daily. They will be launched by Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy at his camp office in Begumpet at 9 am on Thursday.
Speaking to this website’s newspaper, GHMC Additional Commissioner (Health and Sanitation), Ram Mohan Rao, said the Corporation had purchased six sweeping machines, of which four have already arrived, two each from Australia and Delhi and the remaining two will come from England in a week’s time.
Each machine will sweep a single lane road at a speed of 12 km to 13 km per hour. The rate at which it would sweep the four-lane roads was 3.2 km per hour.
Rao said during nights a stretch of about 225 km is being swept daily by the municipal sweepers while the machines are expected to sweep a road stretch of at least 150 km. Machine-sweeping would be initially introduced in the accident-prone areas and critical roads.
The operation and maintenance cost of each machine is going to be Rs 800 per hour. He said that there were several instances where sweepers, while sweeping the road during the night time, are being killed by speeding vehicles.
He said with the introduction of the modern machines, the accident rate could be brought down as sweepers would be doing their job only in the internal roads.
The total cost of the machines was around Rs 5 crore, he said.
SOURCES:
Newindpress
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