Hyderabad, September 12: The final Ganesh immersion procession has generated an additional garbage of nearly 1300 Metric Tonnes in just 24 hours.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has engaged a strong contingent of 2500 personnel to clean the garbage en-route 15 kilometers of procession route. According to the GHMC, as many as 1100 people were hired for entomology and another 1400 for sweeping the roads after the procession.
The GHMC has also deployed 31 sweeping machines and 88 other vehicles including four JCBs to clear the garbage from city roads and also at the procession sites around Hussainsagar. Cleaning was done at immersion sites at NTR Marg, Tankbund, Saroornagar, LB Nagar, Safilguda, Malkajgiri, Peddacheruvu, Kapra, Durgam Cheruvu, IDL Cheruvu, Bowenpally Cheruvu, Pragathinagar Cheruvu and Sunnam Cheruvu of Kukatpally.
Similarly, cleaning of procession routes was taken on nearly 10 important stretches of roads from Balapur to NTR Marg.