Telangana govt's big push to waste management in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: Gearing up for

comprehensive waste management policy

and decentralised waste management in the city, the government is developing 17 transfer stations, pressing into service additional 650 swachh auto tippers, identifying compact transportation points (CTPs), expanding the capacity of effluent treatment plant located in Patancheru, making 10,000

public washrooms operational

and building pre-fabricated basti dawakhanas (neighbourhood clinics)

"Seven transfer stations have already been developed, each zone will get 25 autos with 4.5 tonnes capacity which will be deployed in commercial stretches," said mayor

Bonthu Rammohan

after a review meeting on sanitation held at GHMC head office.

The plant to recycle industrial liquid waste in Patancheru, being set up in collaboration with Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC), would be operational within six months. "The zero liquid discharge common effluent treatment plant, which can treat 480 kilo litres per day (KLD) of industrial waste, is being expanded to a million litres per day," Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited said.

As per GHMC records, 15 CTPs have been set up within two months and an additional 35 CTPs would dot the city. Civic officials also said the debris recycling plant would be operational by February. The CTPs would be collection points where the garbage collected from the city is dumped into compactors, from CTPs the garbage is transported to

Jawaharnagar

dump yard. "The plan is to initially set up 50 CTPs in the city and within two months Fathullaguda debris recycling plant (500 metric tonnes of waste per day capacity) will also be operational," GHMC solid waste management superintending engineer Koteswara Rao said.

The civic body has also decided to build another 25 basti dawakhanas. Unlike the regular neighbourhood clinics, these would be pre-fabricated ones. "When we wanted to set up clinics in some localities, locals objected to it, so we are building pre-fabricated clinics. They can be dismantled and moved to a new location if needed," a GHMC official said. To further improve sanitation standards, Pattana Pragati Puraskaram (sanitation awards) would be given for urban local bodies (ULBs) in February.