City losing battle against garbage
The Hindu
Removal of bins has turned vast areas into dumping grounds
Hyderabad is losing its battle against garbage. The city is stinking and sinking in trash as the garbage keeps piling every higher. A change of strategy to clean up the trash is not helping as the size of the roadside and street corner mounds keeps growing every day. The intense heat of summer is not helping matters as the rotting organic matter is making passers-by squirm and pinch their masked nose. For Ravi and his team of sanitary workers with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation the day begins at the crack of dawn when they take their lumbering 10-tonne tipper through Nalanda Colony to pick up trash. “Earlier, we had garbage bins that would overflow. Now people are dumping the trash in the open areas and we lift it up. We are making four to five trips a day to clean up this area,” says Ravi who supervises his team of four sanitary workers. The removal of garbage bins has turned vast areas into dumping grounds. A short drive through the city between Rambagh and Charminar via Kalapather shows a dozen dump sites.More Related News