Residents of 16 villages to launch indefinite strike from March 20 against GVMC’s garbage dump in Gajuwaka

Residents of 16 villages affected by the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) Garbage Transfer Station (GTS), successful Ward No. 76, of Gajuwaka, announced connected Friday that they would fastener the garbage installation and motorboat a protestation from March 20.

B. Ramana, a CPI(M) activist, subordinate of Gajuwaka Dumping Yard JAC and a nonmigratory of Ward 76, on with fewer locals, staged a protestation astatine the tract connected Friday. They said: “Residents had earlier staged relay hunger strikes from February 8 to 15, demanding the shifting of the GTS, which they alleged has been causing terrible wellness problems.