Scores of workers dumped the garbage outside the residence of Transport Minister Gopal Rai. “Similarly, in the case of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation, entire amount of Rs 465.53 crore i.e. also 100% of the revised estimates of the year 2015-16 has been released by the Delhi government”, the government said in a statement.
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“We are now on an indefinite strike as both the Delhi government and the municipal corporations have failed to meet our demands of payment of regular salaries and arrears among others”.
“If the government has released payment of the MCD workers, then where is it?”
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled corporations are accusing the state of engaging in petty politics by not releasing funds.
They claim they have not been paid for around three months. “The BJP controls the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, having swept the election in 2012”, he added.
“Kejriwal left for Bengaluru at 11.30 a.m. He will be there for ten days and undergo naturopathy treatment”, the official told IANS. But the strike was called off in the wake of a high court order.
Highlighting the Swachchh Bharat cess the bench asked the Centre to ensure the agencies were put to work immediately. “All the three municipal corporations, we will go to the court filing a contempt petition”, South Delhi Mayor Subhash Arya said in a joint press conference.
As part of the protest, United Front of MCD Employees, an umbrella group of MCD workers’ unions, will hold dharna at Jantar Mantar later in the day.
However, the corporations said while grant-in-aid has been provided “in full”, the Municipal Reform Fund remains unpaid, since the Sheila (Dikshit) government went out of power in 2013.
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He said both North and East corporations were also fast running out of stock of raw materials.
