Private firm hires 1,700, govt hopes striking staff will join
Out of the 3,800 slots, GCC has now reserved 2,000 slots for the protesting workers, and only 300 of them have rejoined, with the rest continuing to abstain from work. Still, 1,800 slots are vacant.
The govt has informally instructed the contractor not to hire more people but to wait for the protestors to come back. However, the contractor—Chennai Enviro—told TOI that they are only paid based on manpower deployment as one of their key performance indicators.
"If they don't join, we will have to fill vacancies soon," said Parisutham Vedamuthu, project head of Chennai Enviro.
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From clearing garbage in about four wards of Royapuram and Thiru Vi Ka Nagar, the contractor has now expanded to 10 out of 30 wards. In Thiru Vi Ka Nagar zone, the contractor increased the number of trips from 32 to 96 in the last ten days, while in Royapuram, they have gone up from 77 to 128, collecting a total of 25,000 tonnes from the two zones.
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These zones generate about 1,000 tonnes a day and have a population of 20 lakh.
"We still have key neighbourhoods of George Town, Central, and Egmore to cover. We will wait for a few days, and if people don't join, we will hire more people under the National Urban Livelihood Mission scheme for daily wages," Vedamuthu said.
Regarding failed negotiations with protestors and fears over migrant workers being hired, municipal administration and water supply department minister K N Nehru said he spoke to the unions for four days straight.
"The contractor won't recruit any migrant workers. The CM has told us to resolve this amicably," he said.
Meanwhile, the contractor has scaled up operations with 310 battery vehicles to collect waste in three shifts. "We are doing manual and mechanical sweeping, and secondary transportation. We are building resource recovery centres and procuring tipper-lorries," Nehruadded.
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