Separate desk to deal with plaints by self-help groups

Khairatabad: Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) Managing Director M Dana Kishore on Tuesday said separate complaints-receiving divisions will be set up for self-help groups in HMWSSB and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).

Addressing a meeting at HMWSSB head office at Khairatabad, HMWSSB Managing Director M Dana Kishore said that they would verify the complaints as soon as possible they get it from the self-help groups.

He said that people are wasting lots of water and millions of liters of water are going waste on the roads. He instructed the officials to identify the wastage of water in 150 parks across the city and find out the solution to avert such huge wastage of water.

Members of the self-help groups should take the initiative to prevent wastage of water across the city and they should find out the pipeline leakages in identified 150 parks across the city, he urged.

HMWSSB Secondary Transmission Director Dr P S Suryanarayan, Project 2 director Sridhar Babu, Revenue director B Vijay Kumar Reddy along with GHMC zonal commissioners, higher officials, members of self-help groups were present at the meeting.

GHMC to lift garbage in evenings also

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is to start lifting garbage in the evening also from next Monday. The present practice is to lift garbage from households through a network of outsourced staff through trolleys.

In spite of the twin-bin scheme and several other measures notwithstanding, the civic body has been receiving a flood of complaints from every quarter. The new initiative comes in the wake of the complaints. In a recent meeting with officials, GHMC Commissioner M Dana Kishore informed that around four vehicles and bob cots would be allotted in each circle of the city to lift garbage in the evening from Monday. According to the GHMC officials, every day, about 5,000 metric tonnes of garbage is generated which includes wet as well as dry waste in the city.

There are nearly 500 trucks, 2,500 Swachh auto-trolleys for collection and disposal of waste generated in all the circles across the city. More number of vehicles would be hired by the GHMC to collect the garbage in the evening time, said officials.