The Pioneer 03.01.2014
RMC to hire A2Z employees
Under the new system, the municipal body will supervise solid waste management through ward councilors who will monitor supervisors and labourers in their respective wards. Interestingly, the municipal body also decided to hire the supervisors and labourers earlier working for A2Z on “humanitarian” ground.
“They would have become jobless. We thought that since they are local people it is good to hire them. We will see that they get what they were getting earlier,” said RMC CEO Manoj Kumar. According to sources, the municipal body has asked all supervisors working for A2Z to appear in person at the RMC’s office to help it draw a detailed plan for solid waste management.
The new system put in place by RMC will be implemented in two to three days time as the corporation has still not taken assets incidentally pressed into service by A2Z. The RMC had asked the A2Z to handover all assets which were bought from funds provided under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The A2Z was directed to handover assets after its contract with the RMC was terminated in the month of November 2013.
“They have handed over few assets. I can assure you that in two to three days everything will be back on track,” maintained Kumar. Significantly, the RMC is studying waste management systems being followed elsewhere to find an effective and lasting solution to city’s solid waste management issues. Officials of the RMC have been sent to Hydrabad to study the solid waste management plans being followed there.
“We will float a global tender however it will take some time. We would first study the best system that can be implemented here,” concluded the RMC CEO.
