Pune PMC news.
Instead of securing the livelihood of the waste pickers of the Swachh Sansthan, which is the backbone of Pune city's solid waste management, efforts are being made to allocate new work to private contractors. Senior labour leader Dr. Father Dr. Under the leadership of Baba Adhav, a protest will be held in front of the municipal building on Friday, August 30.
In Pune, about four thousand waste-pickers are collecting waste from one million households, protecting health and the environment by handling household waste. Mainly, this work has been done by the Swachch Sansthan established by the hardworking people for the last more than ten years. Meanwhile, the solid waste department of the municipal corporation has imposed strict conditions while signing a new contract with this organization.
It mainly includes the condition that if a person commits a mistake, he will be fined and the work of all the workers in that ward will be stopped. The agreement has not yet been signed. Notably, as per the orders of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, it has been decided to hand over the task of door-to-door garbage collection in the city to the Swachh Sanstha. Despite this, various efforts are being made by the solid waste department to remove the work of the cleaning agency.
These include not providing raincoats, shoes, handgloves, push carts and buckets to these workers as per the agreement even in the rainy season and now imposing strict conditions in the agreement. In protest against this, Dr. It was informed by the Swachch Sanstha that the garbage sellers will stage a protest under the leadership of Baba Adhav.