Hyderabad: The Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) ‘Swachh Survekshan’ ranking in 2020 among all 62 Cantonese may have risen to 31, but the enhanced rating has not been translated into a better infrastructure, said residents.
In 2019, SCB was at the bottom of the ranking.
“There was absolutely no change even after the ranking improved last year.
In fact, infrastructure becomes much worse now.
Every time the budget is done, it only shows a deficit.
We are always told that the money does not come from the center and SCB must pay arrears to the state government Section for water and other services, “said Chandrasekhar ongoing from the Open Secunderabad Cantonment (Oscar) group (Oscar) and Alwal residents.
“When the Pantonment Board cannot run alone, and GHMC or water boards are doing work for them, then they might join,” said traffic response to the ongoing TI campaign to combine both the body.
On the other hand, the GHMC ranking has risen from 275 (2015) to 23 (2020) in the lakh population category above in ‘Swachh Surveshan’.
“The Canton concept is an English inheritance.
It is not needed now.
And unlike GHMC, we don’t have the right way, water supply or other infrastructure.
We pay taxes too, then why can’t we get a benefit similar to GHMC citizens? Even though there are Problems that must be resolved in the GHMC area, occupants at least know the amount approved by civilians and are able to question officials if something is wrong, “said the other SCB residents, said Raghufeer.
While SCB officials cannot provide budget details for the current year, former Vice President of the Board of J Rama Krishna blames the state government.
“The sad thing is that the state government has fully ignored the Canton area.
Although the Cantonment is part of the 119 selection of Telangana, even one rupee has not been spent on infrastructure,” he said.