The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has cleared 1,458 metric tonnes of solid waste and 547 MT of construction waste from across the city during the ongoing sanitation drive.
The special sanitation drive, which reached its sixth day on Saturday, began the first day by cleaning the footbridges. It was later extended to overpasses, shoulders, partitions, center medians, curbs, lakes, sewers, footpaths, parks, and later also to construction and demolition waste.
Across the GHMC limits covering 300 wards, special sanitation work has been carried out at 1,204 identified areas and points, including footbridges, flyovers, litter-prone spots and parks, the statement informed. As part of the drive, GHMC workers with the help of the traffic police removed old cars kept on the road for long and thus eased traffic.
Commissioner RV Karnan directed district and deputy commissioners to further focus on hygiene and take proactive measures to improve cleanliness across Greater Hyderabad.
Through a video conference on Saturday, the commissioner reviewed the progress of the drive and other development programs with other commissioners, zonal commissioners, senior technical officials and heads of various departments. He emphasized the need to create widespread public awareness about the importance of hygiene and cleanliness and called for active participation of the people in the transformation of Hyderabad.
Published – 03 Jan 2026 20:13 IST
