AS IS WHERE IS: The overflowing dustbin opposite the Bhavan's school in Ramkote, which was not removed in spite of Mayor T. Krishna Reddy's instructions during his surprise visit in December. Photo: Satish H.

HYDERABAD: An overflowing garbage bin and an electric transformer on the roadside continuing to pose a hindrance to traffic movement. This could be a common sight in the twin cities, but the bin and the transformer on the Basheerbagh-King Kothi road stand as example of how in spite of media coverage on "surprise visits" express instructions by the civic authorities are given the go-by by some officials.

When Mayor T. Krishna Reddy went on a surprise visit along with an entourage of officials and the media on December 30, he appeared to be aghast at the overflowing garbage bin next to the transformer near the Bhavan's school in Ramkote. As camera flashguns popped and video cameras rolled, the city's first citizen got off the vehicle, inspected the `bottlenecks' at close quarters and instructed the officials to remove them immediately.

Urgent action sought

A little ahead, there was another garbage bin near a park. After hectic consultations with officials, the Mayor asked the bin to be shifted away from the road after removing two or three illegal `dabbas' that had sprung up along the park. During the two-hour-long surprise visit, the Mayor expressed his unhappiness over the commercial exploitation of cellars, which were meant to be parking places and how influential people were encroaching roadsides. He ordered the officials to act immediately.

Surprisingly, even after 40 days of the surprise visit, the garbage bin and the transformer remain at the same place near the Bhavan's school and so do the other dustbins. The instructions of the Mayor with regard to cellar rule violations too were not implemented.

Works stopped

The only instruction that seemed to have been followed up was the construction of a urinal at the Navjeevan Women's College near Ramkote. But the works were stopped as the college management opposed its construction next to the gate.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail