The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s garbage transfer stations are proving insufficient to handle the enormous waste generated during the Ganesh Chathurthi festivities for 11 days, prompting the civic body to mull over increasing the number of transfer stations in the city.
The GHMC has a total 42 transfer stations/Secondary Collection & Transfer Points (SCTPs) across the city. Of these, five are major transfer stations equipped to handle waste of over 300 tonnes per day, and located at Imlibun, Lower Tank Bund, Nagole, Kaithalapur, and Yusufguda.
At 11 SCTPs with static compactor equipment, the waste received per day amounts of 200-300 tonnes per day. They are located at Katedan, Miralam Tank, Amberpet, Neredmet, Autonagar, Devendernagar, Jiyaguda, Jagadgirigutta, Machabolarum, Deeptisri Nagar, and Patancheru.
Sixteen more SCTPs are equipped with portable compactors, and can handle waste to the tune of 50-80 tonnes per day, while at 10 SCTPs equipped with Refuse Compactor Vehicles, the solid waste received ranges between 20-30 tonnes per day.
Solid waste collected from across the city is first taken to the transfer stations or SCTPs where it is segregated and compacted before being carried to the centralised solid waste management facility at Jawahar Nagar.
