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GHMC apathy irks Civic Exnora

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Municipal authorities take their own sweet time to release work order

HYDERABAD: Jubilee Hills Civic Exnora was hoping to mark its 10th anniversary celebrations by taking over monitoring and supervision of sweeping in the area.

But with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials taking their own sweet time to release the work order, the Civic Exnora members may have to go ahead with their celebration sans the new activity they were keen to launch.

It was in response to the call given by GHMC to the Residents Welfare Associations in the twin cities for their participatory role in sanitation upkeep, the JHCE offered to supervise sweeping in their area along with the door-to-door garbage collection it had already been handling.

“A MoU was signed with the GHMC after furnishing the details sought by officials regarding number of roads, streets, houses. But even after a month the work order was not released to us nor do the officials respond to our calls,” said president of JHCE Indira Lingam.

Passing the buck

Though the GHMC authorities seek cooperation of residents’ associations in upkeep of the city, there is no interest among the officials to take the proposal to its logical conclusion. “We met GHMC Commissioner C.V.S.K.Sharma who referred us to Additional Commissioner Rammohan Rao who in turn directed us to zonal commissioner, after repeated visits. This kind of attitude will dampen the enthusiasm and is bound to send conflicting signals about the intent of officials,” said a member.

The JHCE had also been urging civic authorities in vain to remove the dumper bins GHMC placed in many lanes of the Jubilee Hills as it was in conflict with its ‘zero garbage bins’ campaign.

Stench persists

The Civic Exnora had to stop vermi-composting, an eco-friendly activity to turn segregated biodegradable garbage into manure, as Jubilee Hills Housing Society complained about the stench. “The stench was in fact from the filth-filled nalah that was neither cleaned regularly nor desilted by the sanitation wing of corporation. The nalah continues to reek of foul smell but vermin-composting that considerably reduced the quantum of garbage to be sent to landfill, got affected,” said Ms. Indira.

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