The Deccan Chronicle 13.12.2010
Garbage victims seek CM’s helpDec. 11: Thousands of families living in and around the Jawaharnagar garbage dumping yard that is located on the outskirts of the city will have to suffer bad smell and air and ground water pollution for a long time as the proposal to shift the garbage disposal operations from the Jawaharnagar yard to the neighbouring Nalgonda district has been blocked by a minister.
After facing stiff opposition from local farmers, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has run into the “ministerial block” against its efforts to take over 723 acres of land in Nalgonda district for developing the same into a garbage dumping yard.
The minister, who hails from Nalgonda district, is averse to the idea of the city’s garbage being disposed in Nalgonda district and despite several letters written by the GHMC to hand over the site, the Nalgonda district administration is delaying the completion of the formality as they are reportedly under pressure from the minister.
The officials of the GHMC said that the change of guard at the state level may do the trick. The decision now lies with the Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy. Earlier, the minister from Nalgonda had represented the matter to the then chief minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, and had told him that the people in the district were in no mood to accept the city’s garbage. It may be mentioned that the state government issued a government order (GO) in July allocating 723 acres of land in the Malkapur village of Choutuppal Mandal in Nalgonda district to the GHMC so that the civic body could develop the same into a scientific garbage disposal site.
However, the residents of Jawaharnagar would have to suffer the stench from the garbage dump for a while longer due to the GHMC’s delay in taking up the site in Nalgonda.
