The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has launched a special sanitation drive across all 30 circles of Hyderabad, removing more than 108 metric tonnes of waste and debris on the first day of the citywide operation.
The drive began on Monday under the PRAGATI 50 Cities framework and is scheduled to continue until December, according to a GHMC press release reported by Telangana Today. The programme will follow a different theme each week, with specific sanitation activities planned for every working day.
On the first day, sanitation workers cleaned 105 locations across the corporation’s jurisdiction. The work covered 40.50 km of footpaths and 43 km of medians, along with crossings and roundabouts. These are high-use public spaces where accumulated waste, litter and unauthorised publicity material can affect pedestrian movement and the appearance of major roads.
The municipal teams removed 311 unauthorised posters during the operation. They also lifted 86.05 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste and another 22.76 metric tonnes of litter and debris. Together, the two categories amounted to 108.81 metric tonnes cleared on the opening day.
The figures indicate that the operation is combining routine solid-waste removal with the cleaning of transport-linked public spaces and the removal of unauthorised posters. By extending the programme across all 30 circles, GHMC has placed the drive under a citywide administrative framework rather than limiting it to a single zone or selected road corridor.
The daily focus on footpaths, medians, crossings and roundabouts also defines the areas being prioritised in the initial phase. These locations form part of the public realm used by pedestrians, motorists and other road users, although the press release did not provide a circle-wise breakdown of the 105 locations or identify the specific areas covered on Monday.
The PRAGATI 50 Cities framework will guide the drive through December, with weekly themes and working-day activities determining how the sanitation campaign is implemented. GHMC’s first-day figures provide a baseline for the programme’s scale, but the available announcement does not specify the total number of workers deployed, the planned daily targets, the disposal sites used for the collected waste or the mechanism for measuring progress across the 30 circles.
For residents, the immediate outcome is the clearance of waste, litter, debris and unauthorised posters from identified public locations. The continuation of the drive will depend on the activities scheduled under each weekly theme and the corporation’s subsequent reporting of work completed. GHMC’s programme is set to remain in operation until December, according to the press release.
