Telangana High Court had directed the Principal Secretaries of Irrigation, Mines and Geology and Roads and Buildings and GHMC Commissioner to appear before it if they fail to respond to the court directions in three PIL petitions.
A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili, taking a serious note of the four top officials failing to file their responses despite the court’s earlier orders in the pleas, passed the fresh direction seeking their personal appearance. In a PIL petition filed by a citizen Sitaramaraju from JJ Colony of Saket, the HC directed the GHMC Commissioner to file a detailed affidavit by March 29, 2020 on the steps taken to shift garbage dumping yards to three different sites from the present Jawaharnagar dumping yard.
The bench during the previous hearing observed that none of the three alternative sites (located in Medak and Rangareddy districts ) for dumping yards were within GHMC’s possession. The bench also noted that, referring to the dry resource centers claimed to have been established by GHMC, were existing or not. The petitioner stated that with the capping of Jawaharnagar dumping yard becoming inadequate, stench was pervading all homes located in surrounding Yapral and Kapra making lives of people miserable.
