The Hindu 29.09.2010
Corporator goes on garbage collection spree
Staff Reporter
| Guggilla Jayashree irate over municipal authorities' inaction in her division |
Cleanliness drive:Corporator G. Jayashree collecting garbage from houses in a tri-cycle in Karimnagar on Tuesday.
KARIMNAGAR: Karimnagar, when still a municipality, had attained distinction in the State when it won the clean city award for its prompt and proper disposal and segregation of garbage from the residential areas, business establishments, hospitals, hotels etc.
After its upgrade into a corporation, it is the other way round. The garbage dumped in the dust bins are piling up on the roads and people are worried about the spread of diseases.
In vain
Local municipal corporators have been informing the authorities to deploy sanitation labourers for the removal of garbage, but in vain. In the busy Mankammathota locality, when the ruling party corporator Guggilla Jayashree informed the authorities, they were reluctant to take action. Irked over this, she bought a tricycle and collected garbage from the residential areas on her own with the support of her husband Guggilla Srinivas and others. Ms. Jayashree told The Hindu that since the last 15 days sanitation workers were not visiting the divisions for collection of garbage. The municipal authorities say that they have 646 sanitation labourers. On the contrary, such a huge number of sanitation workers are available only on paper, she alleged.
She charged that the authorities, in collusion with contractors, were using only minimum number of sanitation workers on shift basis in each municipal division and swindling the funds. Demanding that the municipal authorities take necessary action for removal of garbage from all the divisions, she threatened to launch an agitation with the public in front of the corporation.
