Hyderabad, Aug 13: Nearly four thousand employees of the Greater
Hyderabad Municipal Corporation were forced to wait outside the head office
premises for almost three hours on Monday as Telugu Desam Party corporators
locked both the entrance gates in protest against the civic body's failure to
take up sanitation works in the city.
The TDP
activists led by GHMC floor leader Singireddy Srinivas Reddy demanded that the
GHMC take up health and sanitation works including re-carpeting of roads,
repairing of street lights, lifting of garbage and curbing the mosquito menace
in the city. They held sit in protest before the GHMC head office after locking
the entrance gates at about 9.30 am and start shouting slogans against the
civic administration.
Talking
to media persons at this occasion, Srinivas Reddy alleged that the garbage was
not properly being removed from the city localities. Although the State
Government is planning to spend crores of rupees for the proposed CoP-II, but
the city is reeling under unhealthy and unhygienic condition especially due to
the piling up of garbage, he said.
Srinivas
Reddy warned that TDP corporators would organize hunger strike from the next
week if GHMC Mayor Mohammad Majid Hussain and Commissioner MT Krishna Babu did
not convene a meeting with the municipal officials within three days to address
the problems being faced by the city. He warned that the protests would continue
until the civic body resolves all the issues within the stipulated time. He
said that the GHMC was prompt in collecting Property Tax or Trade License Fee,
it looks inefficient in performing its basic duty of ensuring cleanliness.
The TDP
protest came to an after Additional Commissioner (Development and Coordination)
K Dhananjoy Reddy pacified the protesting leaders and invited them for talks on
behalf of the Mayor and Commissioner. Almost 30 per cent of the employees
returned to their homes due to the protest.
- INN
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