TS CM plans four new power plants in state capital
State to overhaul garbage collection system in GHMC
2,000 trolly autos and 150 big trucks to be procured soon

Hyderabad: The Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is planning to build power plants by making use of EFW (Energy from Waste) technology. He will be soon consulting technical experts and scientists to seek views for effective recycling of waste and setting up of four power plants in four different directions of the state capital.

He made this statement in a review meeting with mentors and senior officials of various departments working in 12 units of Secunderabad division. With close to 4,000 metric tonnes of waste being generated per day, scope for power generation from waste is huge and government would focus on that, he added.

KCR emphasised on overhauling the present garbage collection and transportation system. He stated that each household would be supplied with two wastage bins (one for dumping dry and another for wet waste). This wastage would be collected from doorsteps of each house by auto trollies and later it would be transferred into big trucks, which would dump the garbage in city outskirts.

KCR pointed out that government would be procuring 2,000 autos equipped with trollies and 150 odd dumper placer trucks for collection and transportation of garbage. This new system should be in place in the next one and half months, he said.

Further, he told GHMC authorities to prepare plans to dump debris (from razed constructions) in abandoned mining quarries on the outskirts of the state capital. Rao directed officials to identify beneficiaries for pension and housing schemes during their visit of various bastis