GHMC shares Solid Waste Management knowhow with Netherlands
The Hindu
GHMC participates in Waste Supply Chain Management Mission in Netherlands, sharing solid waste management practices with international partners.
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is represented by its Solid Waste Management wing at the ‘Waste Supply Chain Management Mission’ programme at Netherlands, being organised jointly by Netherlands Enterprise Agency and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in India between June 16 and 20. Executive Engineer, SWM, R. Sreenivas Reddy has attended the programme, and shared insights into the solid waste management practices of the GHMC, at Amsterdam on Monday. The programme is part of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Netherlands and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, towards knowledge exchange between the two countries.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists