The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation will conduct the next phase of Project Udvasana at 12 designated temples across six municipal zones on November 14, allowing residents to hand over damaged religious items for collection instead of disposing of them with regular waste.
The collection drive will be held between 8 am and 11 am in Shamshabad, Charminar, Rajendra Nagar, Golconda, Secunderabad and Khairatabad zones. Residents can deposit damaged idols, religious photographs, puja frames, old religious calendars and religious books at the designated locations.
The GHMC describes Project Udvasana as an initiative that combines religious practices with environmental responsibility. The collection model is intended to provide residents with designated points for handing over sacred waste, a category of discarded material that can otherwise enter streets, open spaces or routine municipal waste streams.
The designated locations include Venu Gopala Swamy Temple in Badangpet; Mamidipally Hanuman Temple in Jalpally; Sri Venkateswara Swamy Devasthanam in Moosarambagh; Sri Venkateswara Swamy Devasthanam at Tirumala Hills in Asmangadh, Malakpet; Sri Devi Devalayam in Chandrayangutta; and Sri Spathagiri Venkateswara Swamy Devalayam in Hyderguda, Attapur.
Other listed locations are Sri Vishwanjaneya Bhakta Samajam Temple in Karwan; Seetaramanjaneeya Swamy Devalayam, Ramalayam, in Golconda; the TTD temple in Himayat Nagar, Khairatabad; Sri Sai Baba Temple in Kalyan Nagar, Yousufguda; Shree Ramalayam in Jawahar Nagar, Kawadiguda; and Mahashivalayam Temple in Kacheguda, Amberpet. The GHMC’s announcement identifies the collection points across the six municipal zones covered by the drive.
The timing gives residents a three-hour window to bring materials to the designated temples. The initiative is therefore dependent on citizens using the notified sites rather than leaving religious items at roadsides, drains, open plots or beside community bins. The announcement does not specify the subsequent processing or disposal method for the collected materials.
Project Udvasana places religious-item disposal within the wider responsibilities of urban waste management. For residents, the immediate requirement is to separate eligible items and take them to one of the designated locations between 8 am and 11 am on November 14. The GHMC has not announced additional collection timings or locations in the supplied notice.
