Hyderabad: The Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) had set a target of hundred per cent door-to-door garbage collection by 2011, but seven years later, all pockets do not have this facility.
Residents say that some of areas such as Jyotinagar colony, Gruhalakshmi colony and Radhika colony do not even have recycle dustbins at proper locations on their streets.
Residents of Bowenpally Sail colony, Trimurthy colony and others are paying Rs 50 to Rs 100 to private garbage collectors, who collect the household garbage daily. These collectors take it to the SCB transit points at various locations, from where large trucks pick up the garbage and drive it to Balajinagar.
The lack of proper mechanism for garbage collection has turned many colony park lands in the cantonment into trash dumps.
A resident of Jyotinagar colony, Mr Ch. Saibaba, said, “People usually dump all the waste on vacant land parcels that are allotted for parks. This causes a lot of stink around the land parcel and breeding of mosquitoes in the colony. Even construction debris is thrown on the road.”
Asked about this, SCB vice-president J. Rama Krishna said, “Most of the colonies have door-to-door mechanism wherein residents pay the people who collect the garbage. We do not have any cantonment staff doing this as of now. We have deployed private people, who are outsourced from different agencies. They collect the garbage in it their own vehicles. We are planning to set up a solid waste management plant soon.”
Mr M. Murali, a resident of Annanagar, said, “Peo-ple come to our colony and collect garbage once a day. But before that we have to deposit the garbage at the large dustbin at the end of the street, from where they will collect it.”
There were proposals to shift the Trimulgherry dumping yard at the Mahatma Gandhi community hall to Jawaharnagar, but the residents there protested the move.
Speaking about the alternative land for the dumping yard, Mr Rama Krishna said they had already identified a plot for the alternative dump and will freeze the land soon for the purpose.” Now, the land is being checked for the feasibility of setting up a dump yard. In less than a month it will be confirmed and the dump yard will be shifted to this place, he said.
