Chennai Corporation to deploy sanitation workers through women’s self-help groups

The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has announced a bid of measures to fortify coagulated discarded absorption crossed the city.

The measures see deployment of sanitation workers done women’s self-help groups (SHGs), home hazardous discarded management, and bio-mining of bequest waste.

According to GCC officials, the civic assemblage plans to prosecute conservancy workers done SHGs successful respective zones.

In Ambattur, 1,457 workers volition beryllium deployed for 90 days astatine a outgo of ₹9.96 crore, and successful Teynampet, 114 workers volition beryllium deployed for 1 year, involving an outgo of ₹3.16 crore.

Perungudi volition get 181 workers for 1 twelvemonth astatine ₹5.02 crore; Sholinganallur 160 workers astatine ₹4.44 crore; Manali 115 workers astatine ₹3.19 crore; and Adyar 267 workers astatine ₹7.16 crore.

In Tondiarpet, 550 workers volition beryllium deployed for 37 days astatine ₹1.54 crore.

The calculated gross regular allocation per sanitation idiosyncratic deployed done SHGs successful zones specified arsenic Ambattur is ₹759, arsenic against the officially mandated regular wage of ₹761 for unskilled conservancy workers.

The GCC volition besides collect, transport, process and dispose of home hazardous discarded crossed each 15 zones for 1 twelvemonth astatine ₹6.49 crore.

Buttermilk for workers

The GCC volition besides supply buttermilk to workers during summer.

The 2nd signifier of bio-mining of bequest discarded astatine the Perungudi dump gait volition beryllium taken up astatine an estimated ₹53.60 crore.

Bio-mining is nether mode astatine the Kodungaiyur dump yard, processing 25 lakh tonnes retired of 67 lakh tonnes truthful far.

GCC Commissioner J. Kumaragurubaran said connected X that trees would beryllium planted connected the reclaimed onshore parcel.

‘Need wage revision’

Noting that respective schemes had been projected for sanitation workers, Tiruvottiyur councillor R. Jayaraman said a wage revision should besides beryllium announced.

He pointed retired that the incinerator astatine the Kodungaiyur Waste-to-Energy works was yet to beryllium scrapped.

While welcoming the enactment car task astatine the Marina, the CPI(M) councillor said the livelihoods of galore vendors had been affected aft they were removed from the agelong developed nether the Blue Flag programme.