Garbage, brought from areas under Secunderabad Cantonment Board, is dumped at Mahatma Gandhi Community Hall and this is leading to diseases and health issues for residents, especially senior citizens. The moment one enters our residential locality, Srinagar Colony, it is tough to even withstand the strong stench emanating from the waste dump. A number of mosquitoes and flies have increased and we are concerned that it may result in faster spread of diseases like dengue. Some residents have already fallen sick and the high cost of medication will further add to our problems. I request the concerned authorities to put an end to this practise of dumping waste in our locality.
Prameela
Trimulgherry
Too many holidays
The recent change in holidays for banks will cause hardship to customers. What with two more days of holidays added and one or two holidays every month, the staff will effectively work only 75 per cent of days in a month. We can sum it up as a whole week of holidays. It would have been better if the government or RBI makes it half-a-day holiday instead of two additional days in a month.
Kumar Shastri
Moula Ali
Where are the bins?
It has been one year since we have heard about segregation and collection of garbage from the doors of the houses. Only the garbage collectors and their rickshaws are seen and they have been demanding random amounts from the households for collection. As all the garbage bins have been removed from various locations, households are compelled to use their services. But, no segregation is done as every thing is dumped in one rickshaw.
The State government and GHMC made several statements about provision of two garbage bins to each household, but this is still not implemented. In fact The Hindu also carried a news item on July 23 that an amount of Rs.41.40 cr was sanctioned by the Government for procurement and distribution of domestic bins to 44 lakh households.
They even claimed that the price of a bin had been fixed at Rs.563.
As per one more report in recently, the GHMC Commissioner addressed the IIM Banglaore about distribution of the bins as having contributed to the GHMC’s success!
One wonders where these bins are and what happened to the money sanctioned.
Households will hand over the garbage to collectors. But what about those who are on the move? Not a single dustbin is visible on any busy roads for disposing the tea and coffee cups, cigarette packs, food wrappers, pan masala sachets, etc. The population on the roads just dump the garbage on roads.
Unless intentions are quickly translated in to actions ‘Swachh Hyderabad’ will remain a dream. We request the authorities to take quick action on this issue.
M.S. Murty
West Maredpally
