Hyderabad, June 14: The Special Council meeting of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will be held at 11 am on Monday to discuss monsoon preparedness and several other civic issues.
The meeting is going to be stormy as the corporators of Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Majilis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) are going to take the GHMC officials to task on various issues and expose their inefficiency.
Mayor Banda Karthika Reddy is also going to have a tough time as the parties have already sent her about 140 questions on various issues and expect her to answer them in the counil meeting.
It is learnt that about half of the issues raised are likely to be taken up for discussion and if this indeed happens there are chances of the session extending over three to four days. The meeting has never gone beyond a day in the past, not at leatst in the last 10 years.
The questions pertain to monsoon preparedness, desilting of nalas, widening of nalas, sanitation, corruption of town planning wing, decentralisation of powers to zonal commissioners, allocating Solid Waste Management project to Ramky Group without any discussion in the Council, street-lights and garbage clearance.
The mayor might face a difficulty in selecting the questions for discussion.
TDP floor leader in GHMC Singi Reddy Srinivas Reddy said monsoon has arrived in the state, but the GHMC has not yet completed the desilting works despite several representations.
“Sanitation is poor and heaps of uncleared garbage lie at every corner in the twin cities. The decision of the GHMC to hand over the Integrated Solid Waste Management project to Ramky Group would be opposed as it has not been discussed in the Council,” he said.
Every zone needed a separate dumping yard, but no effort was being made to identify vacant sites for the purpose.
The functioning of street-lights was not satisfactory, Singi Reddy alleged.
BJP floor leader Bangari Prakash said the party had submitted a list of 20 questions to the mayor covering various issues like sanitation, Kirloskar report on modernisation of storm water drains, desilting of nalas and arrangements for the ensuing Bonalu festival.
MIM corporators too raised issues related to neglect of the old city.
–Agencies