The Deccan Chronicle 20.10.2010
No garbage clearance at SCBHyderabad, Oct. 19: Residents of the cantonment area will have to live with the stink and piled up garbage for a while longer as the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is demanding exorbitant amounts from the Secunderabad Cantonment Board for using its Jawaharnagar dump yard.
Not only is the GHMC asking for `3,000 for every truckload of garbage dumped by the SCB, it has also issued a notice to the Board to cough up `7 crore for garbage dumped over the last five years.
As a result garbage clearance in cantonment areas has been badly hit as SCB garbage trucks are not being allowed to dump garbage at Jawaharnagar.
Over 80 metric tonnes of garbage is generated every day within the cantonment limits.
Though the SCB had two garbage dumping points within its limits, at Hasmathpet Trenching ground and near Malla Reddy Gardens, the Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission had directed it to stop dumping at the two points after residents living around these areas had complained.
The cantonment authorities are now taking the garbage in the defence area at Dairy Farm and then transporting it in bigger vehicles to the Jawaharnagar dumping yard.
