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Bids Called for Privatising Waste Handling in Two More City Zones
The New Indian Express Chennai
|July 24, 2025
EVEN as conservancy workers staged a human chain protest on Wednesday opposing the privatisation of solid waste management in the city, the GCC floated tenders to engage private players for garbage collection and transportation in Tondiarpet and Anna Nagar, the only two zones where waste management was directly handled by the civic body.
With this, solid waste management in 14 zones in the city will be privatised while part of Ambattur zone (12 divisions) alone would remain with GCC.
Last month GCC handed over solid waste collection and transportation operations in Royapuram and Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar zones to Delhi MSW Solutions Limited. The sanitary workers from at least 10 zones, led by CITU, joined the protest which was held at multiple locations.
This story is from the July 24, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Chennai.
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