Hyderabad sources reported that after serving repeated notices to various restaurants in the city to set up vermicompost units, sleuths of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) seized the popular 'Bawarchi' restaurant at the RTC 'X' Roads. Earlier on Saturday, the GHMC officials seized four other restaurants Hotel Kohinoor and Hotel Arabian in Moosapet, Green Bawarchi and Hotel Ghumaghumalu in Kukatpally, for not setting up organic waste converting machines.
Musheerabad Deputy Commissioner Uma Prakash, while speaking to media said "We have in the past served notices to several bulk garbage generators to arrange for the compost units inside their restaurants. After repeated notices, we were left with no other choice but to seize them”.
Moreover the said restaurants were set a deadline for 25 December, 2018, to set up the vermicompost units and the restaurant managements were asked to arrange for separation of dry and wet wastes. The official said despite several warnings, the restaurants have been releasing the wastes into the manholes.
