Deadline set for clearing legacy waste in Anantapur

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A deadline was acceptable to dispose of 1 lakh tonnes of processed garbage from the dumping gait successful Anantapur by the extremity of December 2025 and to wide the full bequest discarded from the bio-mining site by the extremity of January 2026.

Over the years, the garbage collected from the Anantapur municipal limits had been dumped astatine the 10 acre dump gait and it was decided to wide the bequest discarded and marque usage of the spot for increasing greenery and a park. The bio-mining works person started successful July 2025.

Anantapur Urban MLA Daggubati Venkateswara Prasad is keen connected clearing the dump gait of garbage and connected his invitation, the Swacch Andhra Corporation president Kommareddy Pattabhi Ram and officials person precocious visited the bio-mining tract to instrumentality banal of the advancement of work. Mr. Pattabhi Ram said they are taking up disposing of bequest discarded which has accumulated implicit the years by spending crores of rupees.

In Anantapur, the bio-mining enactment is being done successful 2 phases to wide 3.30 lakh tonnes of garbage successful the archetypal signifier and different 1.70 lakh tonnes successful the 2nd phase. Mr. Pattabhi Ram directed the backstage institution that has taken up the bio-mining enactment to implicit the disposal of the already processed 1 lakh tonnes of bequest discarded by December-end this year. “The processing of the remaining bequest discarded should beryllium completed by Sankranthi adjacent twelvemonth and the dump gait should beryllium cleared of the full bequest discarded astatine the dump gait by the extremity of January 2026,” helium said.

To marque this possible, the Corporation has besides decided to supply much machinery which volition beryllium disposable to the steadfast soon. “The dump gait volition beryllium developed arsenic a greenish abstraction and a park. To guarantee that garbage does not gets accumulated again successful the metropolis limits, a discarded processing works volition beryllium acceptable up permanently successful the town,” helium said. Two acres onshore is needed for the aforesaid and MLA Venkateswara Prasad has assured to marque it available.

Meanwhile, Mr. Pattabhi Ram besides made it wide that the steadfast that is presently taking up the bio-mining enactment volition beryllium changed and works handed implicit to different one, if it does not conscionable the deadline.

Published - December 13, 2025 01:37 p.m. IST

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