Taking
notice of the dumping of waste on public roads by commercial
establishments, the municipal corporation had constituted two mobile
teams to identify the erring ones and impose stiff penalties on them.

Municipal
Commissioner C. Anuradha said a private firm had been assigned the task
of collecting and segregating solid and wet waste and moving them to
the dumping yard at Naidupalem.

“Sanitation has emerged as a major
challenge and we will not spare anyone spoiling the roads. Hefty
penalties will be imposed and if the shopkeepers keep on littering the
roads, we will seal the shops,’’ said Ms. Anuradha.

Under
‘Oorante Gunture’, a fortnightly campaign to improve sanitation
launched in 2013, the GMC gave a big push to door-to-door collection of
waste, segregation of dry and wet waste and convert them into energy.

GMC
procured hundreds of push carts and involved SHG women to collect waste
from houses. The campaign began well, but petered out soon as the
municipal corporation had no wherewithal to recycle waste.

In
2015, GMC decided to set up a 15 MW waste-to-energy plant by JITF Urban
Infrastructure Ltd, a firm owned by Jindal company, at
Obulunaiduvaripalem on the Guntur-Chennai national highway.An agreement
was signed with the firm, and is now in the process of securing the
various clearances.