Gurgaon: City’s waste management concessionaire Ecogreen Energy called off its strike on Thursday and said it will resume garbage collection and transportation services.
Sources told TOI that the drivers hired by Ecogreen have been promised two months’ salaries by another private firm that has submitted a proposal to MCG on replacing the concessionaire in the city.
“We have called off the strike and drivers will now be given two months of their pending salaries. Work will resume on Friday,” an Ecogreen representative said.
MCG had in December last year served a preliminary termination notice to Ecogreen for failing to manage the city’s civic waste. The same month, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar carried out an inspection and ordered deduction of 15 days’ salary for then MCG commissioner PC Meena as penalty for civic mess in the city.
Ecogreen went on the strike on Wednesday, alleging that MCG is yet to pay dues amounting to Rs 80 crore. The corporation had also forfeited Ecogreen’s bank guarantee of Rs 33.4 crore last week.
For this strike, MCG officials had said they have a backup plan ready to manage city’s waste even if Ecogreen wasn’t working. They had hired two agencies to collect waste and vendors already working in some colonies were asked to step in for door-to-door collection. Sanitation agencies deployed for sweeping were also asked to collect waste from households as a stop-gap arrangement, and the civic body is in talks with RWAs to decentralize waste collection in their own areas.
“After the termination notice, Ecogreen had submitted a rectification plan in response. But they discontinued their work instead of fixing the problems. We had also asked them to give timelines of their rectification plan,” an MCG official said.
In Ecogreen’s rectification plan, the firm said that it needed investment of Rs 620 crore, of which Rs 550 crore would be required for establishing a waste-to-energy plant and Rs 47.3 crore for a material recovery facility and purchasing vehicles for waste collection. Gurgaon generates 1,200 tonnes of civic waste daily, most of which is dumped at the Bandhwari landfill on the outskirts of the city.
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Sources told TOI that the drivers hired by Ecogreen have been promised two months’ salaries by another private firm that has submitted a proposal to MCG on replacing the concessionaire in the city.
“We have called off the strike and drivers will now be given two months of their pending salaries. Work will resume on Friday,” an Ecogreen representative said.
MCG had in December last year served a preliminary termination notice to Ecogreen for failing to manage the city’s civic waste. The same month, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar carried out an inspection and ordered deduction of 15 days’ salary for then MCG commissioner PC Meena as penalty for civic mess in the city.
Ecogreen went on the strike on Wednesday, alleging that MCG is yet to pay dues amounting to Rs 80 crore. The corporation had also forfeited Ecogreen’s bank guarantee of Rs 33.4 crore last week.
For this strike, MCG officials had said they have a backup plan ready to manage city’s waste even if Ecogreen wasn’t working. They had hired two agencies to collect waste and vendors already working in some colonies were asked to step in for door-to-door collection. Sanitation agencies deployed for sweeping were also asked to collect waste from households as a stop-gap arrangement, and the civic body is in talks with RWAs to decentralize waste collection in their own areas.
“After the termination notice, Ecogreen had submitted a rectification plan in response. But they discontinued their work instead of fixing the problems. We had also asked them to give timelines of their rectification plan,” an MCG official said.
In Ecogreen’s rectification plan, the firm said that it needed investment of Rs 620 crore, of which Rs 550 crore would be required for establishing a waste-to-energy plant and Rs 47.3 crore for a material recovery facility and purchasing vehicles for waste collection. Gurgaon generates 1,200 tonnes of civic waste daily, most of which is dumped at the Bandhwari landfill on the outskirts of the city.
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