M M Farooqui Hyderabad

TheGreater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation intensified its four-week Special Sanitation Drive across all 30 circles, recording significant progress during the initial two days through focused cleaning operations and waste removal activities. On the second day on Tuesday, the municipal body concentrated on removing floating waste, silt, and debris from lakes, ponds, drains, and nalas, while securing identified dumping ingress points and installing signboards to discourage indiscriminate dumping.

According to official data, cleaning operations were carried out across 57 lakes, ponds, drains, and nalas statewide. A total of 43.6 metric tonnes of floating waste, silt, and debris was cleared. Additionally, 21 waste-dumping ingress points were successfully secured to prevent fresh dumping, while one regulatory signboard was installed as part of the campaign.