TDP leaders lock GHMC office for two hours
Hyderabad, Aug 13 (INN): Nearly four thousand employees of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation were forced to wait outside the head office premises for almost three hours on Monday as Telugu Desam Party corporators locked both the entrance gates in protest against the civic body's failure to take up sanitation works in the city.
The TDP activists led by GHMC floor leader Singireddy Srinivas Reddy demanded that the GHMC take up health and sanitation works including re-carpeting of roads, repairing of street lights, lifting of garbage and curbing the mosquito menace in the city.
They held sit in protest before the GHMC head office after locking the entrance gates at about 9.30 am and start shouting slogans against the civic administration.
Talking to media persons at this occasion, Srinivas Reddy alleged that the garbage was not properly being removed from the city localities.
Although the State Government is planning to spend crores of rupees for the proposed CoP-II, but the city is reeling under unhealthy and unhygienic condition especially due to the piling up of garbage, he said.
Srinivas Reddy warned that TDP corporators would organize hunger strike from the next week if GHMC Mayor Mohammad Majid Hussain and Commissioner MT Krishna Babu did not convene a meeting with the municipal officials within three days to address the problems being faced by the city.
He warned that the protests would continue until the civic body resolves all the issues within the stipulated time.
He said that the GHMC was prompt in collecting Property Tax or Trade License Fee, it looks inefficient in performing its basic duty of ensuring cleanliness.
The TDP protest came to an after Additional Commissioner (Development and Coordination) K Dhananjoy Reddy pacified the protesting leaders and invited them for talks on behalf of the Mayor and Commissioner.
Almost 30 per cent of the employees returned to their homes due to the protest.
News Posted: 13 August, 2012
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