The Hindu 06.11.2009
Sanitation to be outsourced in 5 more wards
Staff Reporter
BERHAMPUR: The Berhampur Municipal Corporation has decided to privatise the maintenance of sanitation in five more wards of the city.
Following this decision, the total; number of wards whose maintenance of sanitation has been privatised would rise to 10. The city has already outsourced the sanitation maintenance of five wards.
Speaking to newsmen, the Mayor , Siba Shankar Dash said, they preferred to outsource sanitation of five more wards due to satisfactory results in the wards where it was implemented.
He claimed that there had been demands for outsourcing of sanitation work from most wards of the city as it had shown better results in the wards where it was implemented.
The wards whose maintenance of sanitation would be outsourced are ward number 21, 22, 23, 24 and 26.
The wards which already have their sanitation work outsourced are 10, 13, 14, 26, 29 and 32.
This outsourcing of sanitation work had been opposed by the sanitary workers of the city in the past.
They had also taken up agitation. But the municipal corporation had not preferred to roll back its decision.
