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- Anantapur municipality in Andhra Pradesh plans to become a garbage-free town by clearing its long-standing dumping yard and building a new waste processing plant.
- Officials from Swachh Andhra Corporation and the local MLA inspected the Gooty road dumping yard, where about 3,78,481 metric tonnes of garbage has accumulated.
- Clearance work is under way in two awarded packages, though an earlier deadline was missed, and the site is to be cleared by August 15.
- A new ₹17.50 crore plant capable of processing 170 metric tonnes of waste daily is planned, with a separate site identified for the city's roughly 150 metric tonnes of daily waste.
What to watch next
- Whether the legacy dumping yard is actually cleared by the August 15 target
- Progress on construction of the 170 tonne per day processing plant
- Waste clearance pace given the earlier deadline was already missed
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