The GHMC has decided to get its act together with regard to sanitation in the city, in view of mounting criticism about its laxity on this front during successive elections for Assembly and Lok Sabha.
With elections over, the corporation is now focussing on the crumbling sanitation system in the city, and devised a 100-day programme with measurable goals for the same.
Delineating the tasks/targets for improving solid waste management, the Health and Sanitation wing of the GHMC has fixed deadlines for each task, culminating in complete source segregation of waste at the end of 90 days.
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The tasks include 100 per cent attendance of sanitation workers, door-to-door collection, elimination of black spots, composting in gardens and premises of bulk garbage generators, litter management, transfer station management, hot spot management, development of infrastructure, and enforcement, among others.
Already, community resource persons and NGO activists have been deployed in various localities to take feedback from households about door-to-door collection and waste segregation, an official said.
Bulk garbage generators will be identified and waste generation will be quantified and if space is available, they will be directed to set up composting plant.
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Areas will be identified ward-wise where decentralised community composting will be taken up. Under the head of black spots, garbage vulnerable points, dumping points for construction and demolition waste and tree cutting waste, open plots and community bins will be identified, and efforts will be made to eliminate them.
Open urination and defecation points will be identified and campaign will be run to discourage the practice. Spot fine will be imposed for littering public places, by the enforcement teams on patrol.
Restoration of footpaths, damaged roads, and other road infrastructure such as dividers and central medians will be taken up as part of the programme, named ‘Saaf Hyderabad-Shandaar Hyderabad’.
Roles and responsibilities have been fixed for all levels of staff for the programme, officials said.
GHMC Commissioner M. Dana Kishore directed deputy commissioners to prepare circle-wise action plans to identify garbage vulnerable points, open plots and C&D waste dumping points and address the issues. Fine should be imposed on owners of the plots as well as those dumping garbage in them, he said.
He asked them to conduct daily inspection between 6.30 a.m. and 9 a.m., besides visiting garbage transfer stations twice weekly. A total of 2,500 households should be considered as unit for micro planning, he said at a meeting on Thursday.