Residents slam GHMC after desilting mud left on road near Golconda govt hospital
HYDERABAD: A desilting operation carried out by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation near Golconda Government Hospital has left residents of the area dealing with a new problem of the corporation’s own making, mounds of mud and silt dumped alongside the drainage channel and left uncleared for over 25 days, blocking the road and threatening to wash right back into the very manholes that were just cleaned.
The complaint was raised by Mohd Khan, a resident of the area, who flagged the issue on social media after repeated attempts to get GHMC to respond yielded no results. As a result, the issue quickly gained attention online.
Speaking to HyderabadMail, Mohd Khan said, “GHMC workers carried out desilting work on the stormwater drain running along the stretch up to Alliance School in the Golconda area, which falls under the Golconda zone of GHMC.” Typically, this kind of operation involves removing accumulated silt and mud from the drain and manholes, a routine pre-monsoon exercise intended to ensure rainwater flows freely during the rainy season.
However, once the desilting was done, the extracted mud was simply piled up beside the manholes and left on the road. No vehicle came to collect and dispose of it. No follow-up crew arrived to clear the stretch. As Khan put it, “They took mud from the drain and spread it everywhere. Now it just sits on the road. Nobody has come to clear it.”
Meanwhile, residents say the problem is getting worse as the monsoon progresses. Rain will wash the mud back into the same manholes and stormwater channels, undoing all the desilting work. As Khan explained, “It’s a waste of money and resources. If it rains, the mud will go straight back into the sewer. Why do they do such a shabby job?”
He further added that incomplete desilting operations, where silt is extracted but not removed from the site, are a common cause of drain re-blockages during the monsoon, often leading to waterlogging and flooding in the very areas the work was supposed to protect.
Despite repeated complaints, Mohd Khan says residents have received no response from GHMC in the 25 days since the mud was left behind. “They are not responding at all,” he said.
With the monsoon season at its peak and the risk of rain washing the accumulated silt back into the drainage system growing by the day, residents are calling on GHMC to immediately dispatch a vehicle to collect and dispose of the mud before the next heavy spell of rain.
