The AAP government on Monday urged Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to direct Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to release dues running into crores to the three Municipal Corporations of Delhi (MCD) as the strike by over 60,000 sanitation workers entered the sixth day.
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Earlier, the workers expressed their anger by throwing garbage outside the residences of Delhi Ministers.
“I support demand of protesting MCD employees that they shud get their full salaries”.
The AAP government has denied the allegations, saying non-payment of salaries was the result of poor governance in the municipal bodies.
“The government is doing nothing”.
Apart from this, services were affected in seven major hospitals as well as polyclinics and dispensaries run by the civic bodies as the associations of senior doctors, resident doctors, nurses, paramedical staff and other hospital staff too joined the strike. EDMC mayor Harshdeep Malhotra said with half of the money spent on the one-day exercise, two months salaries of the striking civic body employees would have been paid.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that he had ordered extra trucks to be deployed to clear up piling garbage.
“We have already paid them (corporations) funds for clearing salaries”.
The president of the Mazdoor Vikas Sanyukta Morcha, Sanjay Gehlot, however told IANS that the strike by sanitation workers will continue till their demands were met.
According to a civic official, it takes around Rs. 500 crore to pay the salaries of all the employees of the three civic bodies.
“We really apologise for the inconvenience caused to patients, but we are helpless”, he said. They have claimed all dues have been cleared. “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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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, who is undergoing naturopathy treatment for his chronic cough in Bengaluru, said the present MCD, controlled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), should be dissolved and fresh elections held.
