Hyderabad civic body eyes wheelbarrows and tricycles for garbage collection

GHMC will distribute wheel barrows and tricycles to sanitation teams to dump swept waste, so that garbage vulnerable points (GVPs) are eliminated from across the city towards betterment of sanitation standards. GVPs are random locations across the city where garbage is accumulated due to removal of blue dumper placer bins in an attempt to make the city bin-free in line with the Swachh Bharat guidelines

Failing miserably in containing the haphazard accumulation of garbage at random locations, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is now experimenting with wheelbarrows and tricycles for collection of swept garbage from across the city.

In separate tenders, the civic body has invited bids for empanelment of agencies for supply and delivery of wheelbarrows and tricycles for transportation of municipal solid waste, for a period of one year.

The stated objective is to provide better sanitation standards to the citizens, by eliminating the garbage vulnerable points (GVPs). The wheelbarrows and tricycles will be provided to all the sanitation worker groups, to store the swept garbage daily, instead of dumping it at GVPs, the tender document said.

The requirement is tentatively fixed at 1,500 each of the wheelbarrows and the tricycles — 50 for each of the 30 circle under the civic body’s purview.

The corporation had earlier arranged for bins with wheels for the sanitation teams to dump the swept garbage in. Then too, the stated claim was to remove garbage vulnerable points.

The city’s solid waste management concessionaire partner Re Sustainability (formerly Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited), as its corporate social responsibility initiative, supplied a total 5,000 wheeled bins with 120 litres capacity each among the sanitation teams.

Upon enquiry, GHMC’s Sanitation wing officials said the bins were being placed at commercial/market locations for storing waste, till it is lifted by the Refuse Compactor Vehicles (RCVs) of the concessionaire agency.