| Daily removal of Municipal Solid Waste
is one of the dire necessities of Hyderabad City, Latifabad
and Qasimabad Talukas, which due to inadequate means of
transportation, supplemented by shortage of staff keeps
on pileup. The rate of removal of MSW is not commensurate
with the waste being generated at these 3 Talukas. The
piled up MSW not only creates unhygienic conditions but
also spoils the aesthetics of the area. A projected amount
of solid waste generation in Hyderabad per day is 807.37
tons with a rate of 0.563 kg/c/day which is around 0.3
million tons per year. It is generated through Household
related activities, Agricultural related activities, Educational
activities, Health care related activities, Market and
Commercial Centre activities, Industrial activities, and
Transport activities. Only a little more than half of
it has been collected by the Union Councils under surveillance
of TMAs and rest goes in the environment providing breeding
places for disease vectors and environmental hazardous
components.
Recently District Government has supported
the TMAs and Cantonment Board Hyderabad in terms of 44
garbage collection vehicles, 3 mechanical sweepers, cesspool
tankers, winch machines and a roading machines in order
to improve garbage disposal and general sanitation. A
200 acre area has been allocated for landfill site and
54 schemes of PKR 125.1 million have been introduced.
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