Chennai Corporation councillors push for new standing committees for food safety and solid waste management
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There are requests put forth by councillors of Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) to constitute Standing Committees for food safety-related issues and solid waste management but Mayor R. Priya has said that the civic body would be able to implement it only when the government enacted a State-level policy.

At present, the GCC has in place Standing Committees for Public Health, Town Planning, Works, Taxation and Finance, and Education and Accounts. The need for a separate standing committee for solid waste management (SWM) was put forth by Ward 12 councillor V. Kaviganesan, at the council meeting held recently, to monitor open dumping, lack of segregation and control greenhouse gas emissions due to these problems. Though the Mayor said this could be suggested to the State when the Council expansion from 200 councillors to 300 gets finalised, the councillor pointed out that it might be too late by then.