Hyderabad, Feb. 3 -- The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Tuesday, February 3, launched a 26-day-long sanitation drive in the city, focusing on removing municipal waste, green waste and waste generated due to engineering and biodiversity work across 300 wards in Hyderabad.

The sanitation drive will conclude on February 28.

According to the civic body, cleaning will be taken up in phases at public places, such as flyovers, foot over bridges, roadsides and medians, footpaths, parks, lakes and rivulets and areas around electric poles and transformers.

Special teams will be deployed to clean legacy waste sites and construction and demolition waste sites using vehicles to eliminate garbage vulnerable points (GVPs), the GHMC...