The Pioneer 03.01.2014
RMC to hire A2Z employees
Ranchi Municipal Corporation has now decided to take control of solid
waste management system in the city, ruling out any possibility of
agreement with the agencies empanelled to replace A2Z, the solid waste
management company.
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.