Trash collection data misleading
The haphazard paper work by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation once again came as a shocker when officials declared that the amount of garbage carried from the city is 7,000 metric tonnes. These numbers came out when about 30 per cent of swachh auto tippers went missing. Surprisingly, the civic body has no counter check and they have been entirely depending on the private agency which has been weighing the garbage at Jawahar Nagar dumping yard.
Ever since the formation of GHMC, the city has been producing about 2,800 metric tonnes of garbage. The garbage produced in the city reached to 3,500 metric tonnes during 2015 and in four years the quantity has reached 7,000 metric tonnes.
Sources in the corporation said that it has been solely relying on the private agency. The quantity of garbage segregation is done only through the number of trips made to the Jawahar Nagar dumping yard without gauging them at the transfer stations.
Sources said that the corporation has conducted a survey and came up with surprising figures that each person produces 500 grams of garbage on daily basis. However, the civic body never unveiled the scientific mechanism involved in quantifying the garbage produced in the city. Sources said that out of 2,500 swachh auto drivers, only 1,975 have reported till Thursday. The civic body has been paying `560 per metric tonnes, which has no accountability. Surprisingly, the corporation did not enhance the number of vehicles to carry the additional garbage. Interestingly, the number does not match with the population, which is 1.2 crore and a floating population of about 5 lakh.
Viswajit Kampati, additional commissioner (transportation), said that the corporation has lifted the additional garbage piled up at the transfer station. He said that the civic body has been clearing additional garbage piled up in the transfer station and for a week it has been transferring about 7,000 metric tonnes to Jawahar Nagar dumping yard. Mr Kampati said that he has been collecting photographs from every transfer station regularly to check whether it has been transported or not. Asked about the scientific mechanism to gauge the garbage transported from city to Jawahar Nagar dumping yard, the transport wing commissioner said that private agency processing the waste are quantifying the trash. Asked whether it was accurate, Kampati said he was 100 per cent sure as now vehicles will have to stop at the transfer station and they will be monitored on CCTV cameras.