1. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Employees’ Union, represented by its President C.Satish Kumar filed the present Writ Petition challenging the agreement dated 21.02.2009 entered into by the second respondent with the third respondent for the purpose of developing integrated MSW management system in second respondent corporation area as illegal, arbitrary and opposed to public interest.

2. The averments, in brief, of the affidavit filed in support of the Writ Petition may be stated as follows:

Petitioner is a registered trade union representing employees working in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (for short, hereinafter referred to as ‘GHMC’). In order to protect the interest of its members and also to see that respondents 1 and 2 are kept within the bounds of the provisions of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955 (for short, ‘GHMC Act, 1955’) and the Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000 (for short, hereinafter referred to as ‘MSW Rules, 2000’), in the matter of disposal of Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW), this Writ Petition is filed. The city of Hyderabad has an area of 638 square kilometers and its population as in the