Minister flays YSRCP regime for taxing public without clearing garbage

The Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD), Ponguru Narayana, criticised the erstwhile YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) authorities for going truthful acold arsenic to taxation the nationalist for the garbage they generated portion neglecting to wide it.

Speaking to the media aft visiting the Ramapuram dump gait connected the outskirts of Tirupati connected Monday, on with legislators Arani Srinivasulu (Tirupati), Pulivarthi Nani (Chandragiri) and Municipal Corporation Commissioner N. Mourya, helium said the erstwhile authorities had near down garbage successful arsenic galore arsenic 123 municipalities crossed the State.

“We person cleared 85 lakh tonnes of garbage successful the past 1 year, and inactive person 68 lakh tonnes astatine the sub-surface level, which volition beryllium cleared successful the adjacent 2 months,” helium said.

Laying accent connected powerfulness procreation done waste-to-energy models to get escaped of coagulated discarded connected a imperishable footing, the Minister announced the motorboat of 10 specified plants successful Andhra Pradesh. He recalled that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had inspected akin plants successful Singapore and Tokyo successful this regard.

“It was the TDP authorities that completed the Visakhapatnam and Guntur plants, which are presently burning 2,800 tonnes of garbage a day. The remaining 8 were stalled during the erstwhile regime,” Mr. Narayana pointed out.

The motorboat of akin plants successful Kakinada, Tirupati, Nellore, Vijayawada, Kurnool and Kadapa would wide 7,000 tonnes of garbage successful a time successful the State, generating important quantity of energy.

Settipalle lands inspected

Mr. Narayana besides visited the Settipalle lands, which remained embroiled successful contention for decades and person been cleared precocious with the involution of Tirupati Urban Development Authority (TUDA).

Speaking to the media on with TUDA Chairman C. Divakar Reddy and Vice-Chairman R. Govinda Rao, the Minister said the lands would beryllium disposable to the stakeholders for registration soon.