The Madras High Court on Monday (August 11, 2025) adjourned to Wednesday (August 13) the hearing on a writ petition filed by Uzhaippor Urimai Iyakkam (UUI) to quash a resolution passed by the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) on June 16, 2025, for outsourcing sanitary work in Zone 6 to Telangana-based Delhi MSW Solutions Limited, a private entity.
Justice K. Surender deferred the hearing after Advocate General (A-G) P.S. Raman requested some time to file a fresh counter affidavit. The A-G said, he had made certain corrections to a counter affidavit, already served on the petitioner’s counsel, and the fresh counter affidavit had to be signed by the Corporation Commissioner.
During the preliminary arguments on Monday, there was a heated exchange of words, with the petitioner’s counsel stating that nearly 2,000 conservancy workers had been protesting on the roads for over 10 days against the GCC’s engagement of a private contractor to carry out sanitary work in Zone 6, while the civic body continued to turn a deaf ear.
Workers ‘thrown out like garbage’
“I am arguing a case as well as a cause. Two thousand people are on the streets. They have been thrown out like garbage. They (GCC) are treating sanitary workers like garbage. They cannot do this to Aruthathiyar, Adi Dravidars, and women. It has now become a battle between David and Goliath,” the petitioner’s counsel told the court.
