Fw: Sub: Please take urgent action and save our lives", --- Reg.

[Jeevananda Reddy]

On Monday, May 23, 2016 8:32 AM, jeevananda reddy <jeevanan...@yahoo.com> wrote:

To:       Dr. B. Janardhan Reddy, IAS                                     Hyderabad

            Commissioner, GHMC                                               23^rd May 2016

            Hyderabad

 

From:  Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy

 

            Formerly Chief Technical Advisor – WMO/UN & Expert – FAO/UN

Fellow, Andhra Pradesh/Telangana Akademy of Sciences

Convenor, Forum for a Sustainable Environment

Plot No. 277, Road No. 78, Jubilee Hills-III, near Padmalaya Studio

Hyderabad – 500 096, Telangana, India

Tel. [040]23550480

jeevana...@yahoo.com

 

 

Dear Dr. B. Janaradhan Reddy, IAS

 

Sub:           “Please take urgent action and save our lives” -- Request to stop “Illegal Hut Dweller Burning firewood adjacent to my house”

 

            Myself and my wife are senior citizens and living in the house [Plot No. 277, Road No. 78, Jubilee Hills-III].  I with the help of MCH and Huda Horticulture officers developed greenbelt in the MCH [now it is GHMC] Park – not developed as Park yet. Now it is lush with greenery. 

 

At the end of the lane opposite to Padmalaya studio, a gate was erected to the Park. Just before the gate, on either side of the road huts were built and people are living there; the adjacent two plots are vacant.  My house is bordered on two sides to the park [west and north]. The huts are at the corner point of southwest where an Electric pole is located [here inside the park the hut dwellers made bath room and breeding mosquitoes].  Drinking water pipe line of my house and as well drainage line passes under the huts.

 

            The hut dwellers are cutting the trees in the park and using it as firewood.  Mornings and evenings they burn the wood. The smoke emanating from the fire enters in to my house causing uncomfortable [low breathing] with reduced Oxygen levels. I personally told the hut dwellers not to burn wood as the pollution is entering in to my house and causing health problems as we are aged people. He continued to burn wood daily mornings and evenings. Even on 22^nd morning I told them in severe words but they burn the wood as usual.

 

Internationally fight is going on against the use of wood in cocking in developing countries, as it is causing deaths. To bring down the human casualties, Government of India is trying to extend electricity to all villages.  Also gas is also provided under subsidy.  But unfortunately in urban areas, particularly in GHMC area in Hyderabad the hut dwellers are concentrated in and around park areas surrounding residential areas and using wood cut from the parks and using it for cocking and causing health hazards to the people living in those localities. People with Asthma are the main casualties.

 

Appreciate if you could make the hut dweller stop burning fire wood

 

Another most important issue is putting garbage in the park and burning it. 

 

On April 2^nd 2016 midnight the garbage was put on fire in front of my house.  Luckily, I woke up in the mid night saw the fire approaching towards my house, I put off the fire. I am 72 year old retired UN Expert.  After seeing my ordeal, my wife good severe depression and hospitalized as her other health problems aggravated with this. She was in hospital for more than one month – in four different hospitals.  Now, she returned home and yet she needs assistance.  Before that every day she used to go for Yoga in Red Cross nature cure hospital at Check Post on Road No. 2 Banjara Hills.  I spent few lakhs of rupees for hospital bills and now I hired a watchman to watch and stop burning of garbage during night time to protect myself and my wife and my house coming under fire.

 

MCH used to keep Garbage bins along the roads and collect the garbage from the bins.  With GHMC the garbage bins were removed and GHMC officials instructed residents to put the garbage in park areas.  The GHMC sweepers also put the garbage in Parks. Once in week they put the garbage on fire either in the mornings or in the evenings. GHMC ordered not to put garbage on roads. Once I called fire services to put off the fire as fire started engulfing the trees. They came but told me, we will not help you in future as people are purposely putting on fire. I sent several letters to commissioners and phoned to officials. They were silent.  The reasons why GMCH officials doing this as well as other issues I sent mails to Chief Secretary on few occasions also – on the occasion of Swacch Hyderabad. People dumping garbage in water bodies & drains/nalas are safe; with the dumping of garbage in parks the neighbours are at risk.

 

Appreciate to look for a solution to stop garbage burning in the parks. People who come forward to build greenery on their own should not become victim, or it becomes a deathbed to them; and thus they should not curse GHMC officials.

 

In fact few years back when I was a member of CFE Committee of Pollution Control Board cleared projects to produce power from garbage.

 

With Kind Regards

 

Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy

 

 

c.c. to CM & CS