Almost 2,000 preservatives have been protesting on the roads for more than 10 days against the involvement of the private GCC supplier to perform sanitary work in zone 6 | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam
On Monday (August 11, 2025), the Madras High Court postponed the hearing on a written Urimimai Iyakkam (UUI) proposal to eliminate the resolution that was extended in the Delhi MSW area, which was in Zone 6 with Telangana. Context, private connection.
Justice K. Surender postponed the hearing after the general lawyer (AG) PS Raman asked for some time to make a fresh honorary statement. AG stated that he had made certain repairs of the affidavit, which had already served on the Council of the petitioner and the fresh honorary statement had to be signed by the Commissioner of the Company.
Chennai sanitation staff protest against privatization, require permanent jobs Video Credit: R. Aishwaryaa
During the preliminary arguments on Monday, there was a sharp exchange of words, and the petitioner’s Council stated that nearly 2,000 preservatives protested on the roads for more than 10 days against the involvement of the private GCC supplier to perform sanitary work in Zone 6, while the civic body still had a deaf ear.
Workers ‘fired as waste’
“I guess the case and the cause. Two thousand people are on the streets. They were fired like garbage. They (GCC) treat sanitary workers such as garbage. They cannot do it for Aruthathiyar, Adi Dravidars and Women.
He continued in the state: “We (sanitary workers) are small people. The constitution is for us. Let (GCC) serve them to the constitution, not the supplier.”
Ag rejected the accusation and said that sanitary workers were in safe hands and nothing unfavorable to their interests happened. He said that everything would be explained in an affidavit.
The petitioner who rejected AG claims to be safe in Safety, to issue a provisional court order, which limits GCC outsourcing services of temporary hygienic workers, originally appointed under the National Mission for Living in Cities and through self -help groups in Zone 6.
After heard for a while, the judge decided to provide time to file a fresh honorary statement and heard the matter on Wednesday. The president of the petitioner K. Bharathi filed an honorary statement stating that its members served as temporary sanitary staff in zones 5, 6 and 7 GCC.
The petitioner’s affidavit
The deponent claimed that GCC had no power to outsource sanitary work to private suppliers and that it must be done either through permanent or temporary workers who have been directly involved. He also claimed that temporary workers had all the rights to be absorbed into permanent vacancies.
He argued that, although section 82 of the City City Act of 1919, it seizes the civic body to call on offers for any work or supply of any material or goods, the term “any work” must be read conjunctively or not disjunctively, with the words “any material or goods”.
Furthermore, he stated that an industrial dispute had been raised with regard to outsourcing sanitary work in Zone 6 and the state government ceded the dispute to the industrial tribunal to the decision of the 28th July 2025.
Cj’s bench
Meanwhile, the defense counsel was mentioned before the first division by the main judge Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and the judiciary Sunder Mohan in terms of reported traffic disruption caused by sanitary workers protesting outside the Ripon buildings, where the main office of GCC is located.
The attorney claimed that the ambulances were slowed down on the road opposite the corporate office due to protests and were looking for early hearing of the petition in the field of public interest he handed him during the day. The judges agreed to hear this matter on Tuesday, August 12).
Published – 11. August 2025 01:30
