The Hindu        15.11.2011

Wanted: 100 conservancy inspectors

Karthik Madhavan

The Coimbatore Corporation will shortly write to the State Government seeking sanction to recruit 100 conservancy inspectors.

Sources
in the civic body say that it needs one each for a ward and that
amounts to 100 conservancy inspectors, who will be tasked with
supervising garbage collection, cleaning roads and drains.

The
Corporation will shortly finalise the proposal for the demand, place
the same before the Council for ratification and thereafter send it to
the Government.

The conservancy inspectors’ posts
have remained vacant for very long, even when the previous council was
in place. Then the vacancy was only 72 as the Corporation then had only
72 wards.

The sources say that there is an urgent
need for the civic body to have the inspectors in place because it has
to streamline waste collection, especially in the 40 wards that cover
the added areas.

The request for the inspectors will
be a part of the Corporation’s demand for conservancy workers. The
sources say that the civic body has sought permission for appointing on
temporary basis around 800 workers.

The workers may
be deployed either in the added areas to take care of the needs there or
may be deployed in the old city area and the workers in this area may
be transferred to the added areas.

The sources also
say that the civic body may also explore the option of giving on
contract the collection and disposal of waste in the added areas. Their
reason: in the immediate future it is difficult for the civic body to
recruit people to take care of door-to-door collection and disposal of
waste.

The sources also say that the civic body is
looking at building two more transit stations to take care of waste from
added areas. The first of the two will be located in the north to take
care of waste from Chinna Vedampatti, Vellakinaru, Thudiyalur and
Kavundampalayam and the second will handle waste collected from Kurichi
and Kuniamuthur.

The Corporation’s plans will get a
concrete shape prior to the conduct of the first Council meeting, for
only after the elected body’s approval will it be able to take the next
step, the sources add.