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Tricycles to replace dumper bins in city

Special Correspondent

Thirty vehicles sourced from Nagpur-based firm to be introduced in select areas soon

Bins can be emptied onto a garbage truck stationed at a particular time
Garbage collecting tricycles, introduced nearly a decade ago, are a big hit

HYDERABAD: New tricycles with manual ability to pneumatically lift and manoeuvre bins are going to be the solution to make the twin cities garbage bin free.

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will be pressing into service 30 such vehicles sourced from a Nagpur-based firm in select areas soon.

The tricycles costing up to Rs. 10,000 each and moving in a particular area will be picking up household garbage and assemble at a designated point. The bins would be loaded or emptied onto a garbage truck stationed at a particular time preventing the need to have a stationary dumper bin.

Sweeping units covering an area too would be provided with a similar tricycle to pick up the municipal waste picked up from the road or on its sides rather than dump it in the corners, explains Additional Commissioner (Health & Sanitation) R. Rama Mohan Rao. The new tricycles are going to be initially introduced in areas like Khairatabad, Abids, Begumpet and environs mainly covering circles seven and 10 (erstwhile circles of five and six) and later might be taken to other parts of the capital.

High cost

GHMC had also considered mechanised tricycles for the job as was being tried out in Bangalore but high maintenance cost of Rs. 16,000 a month made it opt for the manually operated pneumatic tricycles which can be run by the rag pickers.

Household garbage collecting tricycles introduced nearly a decade ago in the colonies freely has become a big hit with municipal authorities claiming that 92 per cent of the area is covered by them. About 6,000 regular tricycles collect garbage each day where the waste is segregated before being taken to the transit points to be ferried to the dumping yard. And up to 1,000 tricycles are replaced free each year based on the request of the respective colony welfare associations. Parts of Serilingampally, Uppal and few other areas have already been made bin free zones, claims Mr. Rao.

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