The much-jinxed garbage collection and transportation proposal of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) will finally be tabled before the general body meeting on Wednesday.
As per the new proposal, the rate for collection and transportation has been fixed at Rs1,700 per metric tonne.
Navi Mumbaikars have been grappling with heaps of garbage in various nodes ever since the contract of M/S Antony Waste Handling was terminated in August 2012 for inept services. To add to the woes of the civic body, Navi Mumbai Bharatiya Janata Party unit had filed a criminal complaint against the corporation at Nerul police station for transporting garbage in open trucks.
The new proposal gives a 10% hike to the contractor every year during the seven-year period for which the contract is to be awarded. According to a civic official, "The rate of Rs1,700 per metric tonne has been arrived at on the recommendation by All India Institute of Local Self Government (AIILSG), to whom the proposal was referred to. It had opined that the maximum and minimum rate range should be in the band of Rs2,400 to Rs1,700 per metric tonne."
The corporation has already floated the tenders and contractor who has been awarded the work has agreed to carry out the collection and transportation of garbage at the said rate.
Garbage collection and transportation proposal has been caught in a legal tangle for more than two years now, derailing the entire system of garbage collection. This has resulted in heaps of garbage getting accumulated in various nodes. The proposal has been prepared keeping in view the provision for equal-pay-for-equal-work.
City Congress unit had challenged the rate of Rs1,504 per metric tonne for seven years of garbage collection passed by the general body in September 2012. It had approached then chief minister Prithviraj Chavan seeking an inquiry into the matter.
The state government had then constituted an inquiry headed by additional municipal commissioner of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Mohan Adtani, who suggested giving minimum wages to workers of this department and observed that the rate offered by Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation was way above other municipal corporations in the area.
Accordingly, the administration worked out a rate at Rs1,233 per metric tonne and brought in the proposal during the general body meeting held in August 2013. However, the ruling Nationalist Congress Party, which has a majority in the House, rejected this proposal under the pretext that the corporation had adopted a policy of equal-pay-for-equal-work and as such, this rate cannot be accepted. The proposal was later sent to the urban development department, which had referred it to the law department.
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