Civic body dumps garbage in Krishnanagar colony

Residents complain GHMC trucks get city waste and dump it in open land.

Hyderabad

: Residents of Krishna Nagar colony in Lalapet have lodged a complaint with police, saying GHMC vehicles are dumping garbage in a private land in the middle of the residential area. And, with GHMC polls approaching, both the civic body as also the cops are promising prompt action to set things right.

As per the complaint, the open plot, which has a big shed, is generally used for conducting functions. At nights, miscreants use the area for boozing and disturbing the area’s peace. To top it, tens of GHMC trolleys are dumping garbage on this campus on a daily basis for the past few days.

Rag pickers, then on, segregate cables and burn them to extract metal from them to be sold as scrap. Nearly ten such people are engaged in sorting out plastics, tyres, cardboard and other material, to be sold as scrap.

According to the residents, the plot is owned by someone who resides in Tarnaka, and that he gave it on lease to one Venkatesh Yadav, a resident of Chandrababu Colony in the neighbourhood. The compound was empty till January 12, with only two big sheds in it used for functions.

From January 13, GHMC trolleys started coming in and dumping loads of garbage. The vehicles were less first, but it increased to more than 20 trolleys a day.

“They are dumping all kinds of garbage in the premises and evening time, they burn tyres and cables, which produced foul smell and full of smoke,” said colony association president D.S. Narayana. “We did not object the rag pickers coming in, as they live on this,” said K. Hari Yadav, son of Venkatesh.

GHMC official said using GHMC trolleys for such purposes cannot be allowed. “The complaint came to our notice also. We will verify facts and take action on the trolley drivers if they violated rules,” said Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Circle 18 sanitary supervisor Krupanandam.

Police investigations are on. “We have got in touch with the GHMC. We will do the needful, said Lallaguda inspector Karan Kumar Singh.