The Deccan Chronicle 28.10.2010
Plastic ban in city parks from Nov. 14Hyderabad, Oct. 27: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has banned the use of plastic bags in 13 of its major city-level parks. The ban will come into effect from November 14.
It will be extended to another 575 colony-level and other parks maintained by the civic body from January 1, 2011. All the parks have also been declared as cigarette-free zones.
The major city parks are Indira Park, Jalagam Vengal Rao Park (earlier Banjara Park), Krishan Kanth Park, Chacha Nehru Park, Shyamalkunta Park, Lotus Pond Park I and II, Sundarayya Park, and Imli Bun Park.
The Mayor, Ms Banda Kartika Reddy, announced the ban during her inspection visit to Chacha Nehru and Vengal Rao Park on Wednesday. She said the GHMC had allocated `1.60 crore to its urban forestry division this year for improvement of greenery.
Earlier in the day, the deputy mayor, Mr Jaffar Hussain, along with MIM MLAs led by Mr Akbaruddin Owaisi inspected several localities in the old city.
Mr Owaisi told the GHMC commissioner, Dr Sameer Sharma, that despite the GHMC taking one-and-a-half-acres of land from the Owaisi hospital, work on improving the traffic junction was yet to be taken up.
At Afzalsagar, Mr Owaisi pointed out that drain widening and anti-flood work has been pending for the last 35 years.
Mr Owaisi also urged the GHMC commissioner to restore the heritage bridge, Puranapul, and remove illegal constructions and encroachments.
