The Times of India 30.09.2009
Sewa files PIL opposing AMC's move
AHMEDABAD: The Swashrayi Mahila Seva Sangh of Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) has filed a PIL in Gujarat High Court opposing AMC's decision to award contracts to collect domestic waste from door-to-door to private companies.
Members of the NGO have contended in the PIL that without providing women, who are doing the work at present, with proper alternative, the corporation can not snatch their jobs.
Moreover, they have also demanded a national-level policy on the issue of civic bodies awarding contract for collection of domestic waste and its disposal.
During a hearing on Tuesday before a division Bench headed by Chief Justice KS Radhakrishnan, it was contended by advocate Bhushan Oza on behalf of SEWA that poor women must not be dissociated from the work they have been doing traditionally. This particularly in absence of any planning that who would be the others to carry out this job.
AMC is expected to present its view on the issue on Wednesday.
Members of the NGO have contended in the PIL that without providing women, who are doing the work at present, with proper alternative, the corporation can not snatch their jobs.
Moreover, they have also demanded a national-level policy on the issue of civic bodies awarding contract for collection of domestic waste and its disposal.
During a hearing on Tuesday before a division Bench headed by Chief Justice KS Radhakrishnan, it was contended by advocate Bhushan Oza on behalf of SEWA that poor women must not be dissociated from the work they have been doing traditionally. This particularly in absence of any planning that who would be the others to carry out this job.
AMC is expected to present its view on the issue on Wednesday.
