Hyderabad: Tons of garbage have piled up at the Imlibun garbage transfer station, leading to morning walkers protesting on Tuesday morning. The Imlibun garbage transfer station is one of the four in the city, where the zone’s waste is dumped before being transferred to Jawaharnagar.
Due to many garbage transporting vehicles being under repair, the load has increased at the transfer stations. It is taking half a day to lift the waste and nine-10 vehicles queue up every afternoon.
Members of the Imlibun Park Walkers Association obstructed the waste loading activity on Tuesday morning and raised slogans against GHMC and demanded for the removal of the transfer station.
Walker Mr Manoj Raj said, “In January this year the GHMC commissioner had inspected the garbage transfer station near Imlibun Park and had instructed the sanitation workers to shift the garbage to the dumping yard immediately as soon as they received it so as to avoid inconvenience to the visitors of the park adjacent to it, but it was a one-day rule.
Every day we are haunted by the smell, we cannot even finish our walks. This is the only lung space for the densely populated and space-starved Old City, and tons of waste is dumped adjacent to it?what is the purpose of building a park with a dumping site next to it.”
“The park has green acreages, long and spacious walkways for morning walkers, huge trees with cool shade and a children?s playing area, but walkers cannot enjoy the facilities with the smell bothering us. At least towards the afternoon and evening the smell is not intense, but during the morning hours, due to less traffic pollution, the smell is strong and many hesitate to come here,” added Mr Prashanth Agarwal, a visitor to the park.
The Imlibun Park, which is meters away from the transfer station, was completed in 2007 and is the largest park in the Old City area. Spread over nine acre, the park, built by the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad, had cost '1.5 crore under the ‘Save Musi Campaign’.
