It is time for the Minister for Transport to dump the existing garbage in the closed and defunct granite quarries on the outskirts of town
The Minister should also focus on the illegal encroachment of parking space by the MCK authorities on the 40-year-old Collectorate
The Minister should also take measures for the removal of encroachment of parking spaces and footpaths by removing the grills
KARIMNAGAR, MARCH 12, 2026: Wearing masks and visiting the garbage dump yard, which had become a big nuisance following the toxic fumes emanating from the garbage dumping yard fire in Karimnagar, will not serve any purpose, it is high time that the authorities plan properly for a long-term solution to the garbage fire menace in the fast-growing Karimnagar town.
The government had taken up Manair River Front on the shores of the LMD reservoir adjoining the huge garbage dump yard to encourage without any vision. Surprisingly, the present government had also supported the Manair River Front and allocated funds for its completion, which is progressing at a snail’s pace.
Ironically, they are missing the logic of how a place can become a tourist centre when there are heaps of garbage dumps emanating smoke and foul smell along the shores of MRF. It is time for the authorities to remove the garbage dumping yard from the existing location where an iconic MRF would come up soon.
Minister for Transport Ponnam Prabhakar, who had visited the garbage dumping yard site on Wednesday, along with Choppadandi legislator Medipalli Satyam, SUDA Chairman K Narender Reddy, Municipal Commissioner Praful Desai and others, assured to take all measures for the clearance of garbage at the dump-yard by taking up massive bio-mining operations at the site
The Minister should remember that the bio-mining operation has been in progress for a long time and there is no respite from the smoke and pungent smell being emanated from the garbage dumping yard, which covers the entire Karimnar like a ‘fog’, choking people of the town.
While the MCK officials are bent upon only to encroach on the decades-old parking place of the Collectorate by taking up plantation and erection of fencing for ‘obvious reasons’ and causing innumerable parking woes to the visitors of the Collectorate, without any parking place. Ironically, the MCK authorities, in collusion with the AO of the Collectorate, had converted the lawns into parking lots by destroying the plants.
As the Minister for Transport is talking about the relocation of the garbage dumping yard from Karimnagar, it is high-time the authorities choose defunct and closed granite quarries on the outskirts of Karimnagar such as Elgandal, Odyaram and other places for the dumping of the existing 40 lakh tonnes of garbage on the huge open cast mines and later cover it with red or alluvial soils and take up plantations by sprinkling water and regenerate the area.
‘The geo-mining of the existing garbage dumping yard is a herculean task and it is time to relocate the garbage from the spot and dump it in any of the closed and defunct granite quarries and solve the issues without any problem.
