[1]Hyderabad: Year after year it is the same story. Thousands of Ganesh idols immersed near the Tank Bund side of the Hussainsagar will not be removed as the lake bed is too deep for the civic authorities to clear the waste.
Neither the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation nor the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority has marine craft that can fish out the idols immersed along the Tank Bund side.
R.P Khajuria, member of the environment cell of HMDA BPP, said that the HMDA has two JBCs (massive cranes usually used to clear construction debris). But these machines cannot function in the Tank Bund area due to its depth.
Thus only the side that is opposite to NTR Gardens and near Sanjeevaiah Park is cleaned up. This has been happening for many years now. With thousands of idols immersed here over the years, the depth must be much less now.
The civic body removed 2,303 tonnes of waste during the week beginning September 12 and another 600 tonnes on Friday.
Authorities say it will take more than a month and a half for the festival debris to disperse. In 2012, 782 tonnes of debris was removed a day after the immersion. In 2011, 850 tonnes of waste was removed.
According to Khajuria, every year the GHMC cleans the waste throughout the week and on the final day, HMDA takes up cleaning, but this year HMDA did all the work. Around 167 tipper trucks were deployed around the Hussainsagar along with 592 labourers. The trucks made 104 trips to the GHMC’s temporary dumping yard at Kavadiguda.
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