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Move to hand over garbage collection to Ramky draws ire
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is contemplating to handover city sanitation to Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL) later this week. This move by the civic body would hit the lives of about 28,000 sanitation workers and would also cost the civic body about Rs 140 crore according to labour unions.
Hyderabad: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is contemplating to handover city sanitation to Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL) later this week. This move by the civic body would hit the lives of about 28,000 sanitation workers and would also cost the civic body about Rs 140 crore according to labour unions.
Posed with the threat of losing employment, GHMC labour unions have threatened to resort to flash strike. TRS Karmika Vibhag Greater Hyderabad Municipal Employees Union President U Gopal said that they would go on strike if the corporation did not roll back its decision to hand over city sanitation to Ramky.
Highlights:
- This move by the civic body would hit the lives of about 28,000 sanitation workers and would also cost the civic body about Rs 140 crore, according to labour unions
- Officials maintain that the garbage collection is being handed over to Ramky on pilot basis in four areas of the city
- Union leaders threaten indefinite hunger strike if Ramky takes over the city sanitation
"How can the state government handover the project to a private firm?" He said that the TRS had opposed the proposal to hand over garbage collection to Ramky during united Andhra Pradesh and had even taken up an agitation. But now it was doing the same.
"What about the livelihood of 28,000 sanitation workers who have been hoping that their jobs would be regularised after the new state was formed, Gopal added.
According to the union leaders the manual garbage lifting charges are only Rs 54 crore per annum whereas the private firm would charge Rs 192 crore.
BMS president K Shanker said that they would discuss the issue with the GHMC chief and request him to save the livelihood of sanitation workers.
It may be mentioned here that Ramky had entered into agreement with the GHMC in 2008 for taking up Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) project with cost of Rs 434 crore for collecting, transporting, treating and disposing of the solid waste in the city.
The civic body would pay Rs 1,431 per tonne of garbage collected and the same would be enhanced by 5 per cent every year. The fee has been worked out on the ratio of 40 per cent for collection, 20 per cent for transport from transfer station to the dump yard and 40 per cent for treatment and disposal.
However, sanitation wing additional commissioner N Ravi Kiran said that the workers need not have any apprehensions as the corporation would not do anything that would displace them. But he did not elaborate on how their services would be utilised.
Officials maintain that the garbage collection was being handed over to Ramky on pilot basis in Kukatpally, HMT Nagar (Nacharam), Mallapur and Nagole.
