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**Hyderabad Garbage Collectors Protest Over Business Encroachment**

**Hyderabad, May 24, 2025** – Dozens of garbage collectors staged a protest at the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) headquarters on Saturday, alleging that Resustainability, the city’s solid waste management concessionaire, is encroaching on their territories. The protest, led by the Telangana Swachh Auto Tipper and Rikshaw Karmikula Union, involved Swachh Auto Trolley (SAT) drivers and workers chanting slogans and demanding that the GHMC withdraw its decision to hand over commercial garbage collection to the concessionaire.

According to union president Katravath Gopal Naik, an existing agreement stipulated that Resustainability would only collect garbage from approximately 1660 bulk garbage generators. However, the GHMC is now reportedly issuing notices to smaller commercial establishments, compelling them to use Resustainability’s services. This move, the union argues, threatens the livelihoods of the SAT workers.

GHMC Sanitation Wing officials stated that the 2009 agreement with Resustainability obligates the corporation to pay for all garbage collection, including residential, commercial, and bulk waste. The official stated that the current system of SAT workers collecting from fee-paying generators and depositing at the transfer stations, before Resustainability picks up for a second leg, creates double billing for the same garbage.

SAT workers contend that an agreement was previously reached where the GHMC would pay the concessionaire for bulk garbage, and Resustainability would, in turn, pay the SAT workers for the collection, subject to specific conditions. These conditions include Resustainability refraining from household garbage collection and ensuring that SAT workers are paid the amount they would have got from bulk garbage generators.

The protesting union submitted a memorandum outlining their demands to GHMC Commissioner R.V. Karnan. While the protest took place, the GHMC has confirmed that garbage lifting operations were not affected in the city.

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