HYDERABAD: The Government is planning to construct five landfills in the districts abutting the twin cities for an integrated municipal solid waste (MSW) management plan covering all the surrounding 12 municipalities and the MCH.

The plan presented to Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy recently gives itself a three-year timeframe to put the required infrastructure in place.

It is estimated to cost about Rs. 480.50 crores with landfill construction alone expected to cost up to Rs. 470 crores.

Open dumping ground

The rest of the money -- Rs. 10.50 crores -- is to be spent on construction of five new garbage transfer stations and improving the transfer stations at Indira Park, Yousufguda and Ziaguda.

Jawaharnagar, adjoining Kapra municipality, is currently the only open dumping ground for all civic bodies making up the capital region.

This will be the first site for building the long delayed sanitary landfill spread over 100 acres.

Taking into account the growth of the city, permission has been sought to construct four more landfills on highways leading towards Medak (40 acres), Mahabubnagar (100 acres), Nalgonda (150 acres) and Warangal (80 acres).

Municipalities of L.B. Nagar, Kukatpally, Malkajgiri, Kapra, Uppal, Qutbullapur, Alwal, Rajendernagar, Serilingampally, Gaddiannaram, Ramachandrapuram, and Patancheru are said to be generating 1,260.24 metric tonnes of solid waste a day with 636 open points.

MCH generates close to 2,500 metric tonnes and total solid waste is 3,760 metric tonnes.

The integrated plan comprises of strengthening door-to-door garbage collection, night sweeping on main roads, public conveniences, dumper bins, modern transport fleet, outsourcing supervision, etc.

Door-to-door collection

As per the MSW status report of surrounding municipalities, there is 100 per cent door-to-door collection in Gaddiannaram and Kapra, 98 per cent in Qutbullapur, 95 per cent in Patancheru, 90 per cent each in Uppal and Kukatpally, 87 per cent in Alwal, Malkajgiri and Rajendernagar, 80 per cent in Ramachandrapuram, 72 per cent in Serilingampally and 70 per cent in L.B. Nagar.

Municipalities will need 223 night sanitation workers, 602 dumper bins, 56 dumper placers and 1,489 rickshaws and 43 public conveniences plus link up through a wireless communication network to bring MSW management to `normal standards.'

New garbage transfer stations are planned at Fatullaguda, Samsiguda, Kapra, Rajendernagar and Serilingampally to cover the entire city.

Vermi-compost plants are planned at Fathullaguda, Ramakrishnapuram, Ammuguda, Ramanthapur, Macha Bollarum, Sudarshannagar, Papi Reddy Colony, Eight Battalion Kondapur and other sites in Kapra, Kukatpally and Patancheru.

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