The Vellore Corporation has decided to privatise solid waste management in the corporation area.The decision to privatise SWM was taken after the addition of two municipalities, six town panchayats and nine village panchayats pushing up the number of wards in the Corporation to 60 and expansion area has increased from 11.65 sq.km to 87.92 sq.km.
The Corporation generated of 200 tonnes per day as per the 2011 population, the existing garbage vehicles were able to remove only 150 tonnes. The 715 posts of sanitary workers are to be entrusted to the private agency to be selected through tenders.
The Corporation would be incurring a sum of Rs. 56.76 lakh per month.,Rs. 7.17 crore per annum on the sanitary workers. This comprised their daily wage at the rate of Rs. 208 per head per day a total of Rs. 44.61 lakh per month, Employees Provident Fund Rs. 5.35 lakh, administrative expenses (Rs. 66,924), service charges Rs. 5.51 lakh, LIC premium Rs. 71,500, ESI and other benefits Rs. 2.90 lakh.
The addition of extension areas two municipalities Tharapadavedu and Sathuvachari, six town panchayats Gandhinagar, Kazhinjur, Katpadi, Shenbakkam, Allapuram and Thorapadi and nine village panchayats Konavattam, Viruppakshipuram, Alamelumangapuram, Virudhambut, Kangeyanallur, Palavansathu, Idayansathu, Ariyur and Chitheri.
The additional work in all the four zones, and their contract would be ending on various days this year, the last being October 2, 2013.
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