Aafrin Kidwai 
The Telangana government is gearing up for comprehensive waste management reforms with a new policy for decentralised waste management in the city. It is developing 17 transfer stations, pressing into service additional 650 swachh auto tippers, identifying compact transportation points (CTPs), and expanding the capacity of effluent treatment plant located in Patancheru, among other measures.
“Seven transfer stations have already been developed, each zone will get 25 autos with 4.5 tonnes capacity which will be deployed in commercial stretches,” informed mayor Bonthu Rammohan after a review meeting on sanitation held at GHMC head office, according to report in The Times of India.
The plant to recycle industrial liquid waste in Patancheru, being set up in collaboration with Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC), would be operational within six months. “The zero liquid discharge common effluent treatment plant, which can treat 480 kilo litres per day (KLD) of industrial waste, is being expanded to a million litres per day,” Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited said.
As per GHMC records, 15 CTPs have been set up within two months and an additional 35 CTPs would dot the city. Civic officials also said the debris recycling plant would be operational by February. The CTPs would be collection points where the garbage collected from the city is dumped into compactors, from CTPs the garbage is transported to Jawaharnagar dump yard. “The plan is to initially set up 50 CTPs in the city and within two months Fathullaguda debris recycling plant (500 metric tonnes of waste per day capacity) will also be operational,” GHMC solid waste management superintending engineer Koteswara Rao said.
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