Outsourcing of solid waste ops: Corpn sanitary workers' protest enters Day 5

FOR the fifth day in a row, hundreds of conservancy workers from Royapuram and Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar continued their protest against the privatisation of solid waste management (SWM) operations, outside Ripon Buildings on Tuesday.

- PRAVEENA S A @Chennai

The city corporation on June 30 had adopted a resolution to outsource solid waste management in Royapuram and Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar zones to Delhi MSW Solutions Ltd. Although the contractor should have started work on August 1, many areas in the two zones have uncollected garbage spilling onto streets. Sources said while the contractor has hired new sanitary workers on contract basis, they were inexperienced and not enough to resolve the situation.