The municipal workers here on Wednesday staged a protest outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s official residence demanding timely payment of their salaries.
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Delhi government today deployed hundreds of PWD workers to lift garbage from across the city as almost 60,000 sanitation workers of municipal corporations continued their strike.
In lieu of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) workers strike over the non-payment of dues, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) volunteers and Delhi Jal Board Chairman Kapil Mishra took to the streets of Delhi to clean the garbage on Sunday.
The cash-strapped North and East Delhi civic bodies have been unable to pay salaries to the workers for three to four months now.
Demanding regular salaries, payment of long pending arrears, regularisation of contract based workers, health cards and unification of three municipal corporations, the workers launched the strike on January 27.
“It has been two-three months that the workers have not received their salaries. Our complaint is against the Centre, state and MCDs”, said Rajendra Mewati, general secretary of the United Front of MCD Employees.
The former Union Minister said that Delhi government engaging PWD personnel to ensure cleanliness was not a “permanent solution” to the crisis.
Earlier, the Public Works Department, which comes under the Delhi Government, set up a task force to clean up the piling garbage across the city.
The court sought the response of the Delhi government, North Delhi Municipal Corporation, South Delhi Municipal Corporation, East Delhi Municipal Corporation and Delhi Development Authority by the next date of hearing on February 2.
The MCD workers’ protest entered its fourth day today and essential services in the national capital have been crippled as a result.
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“It was a symbolic strike for three days but since no one from the government assured us that our demands would be considered, we have made a decision to boycott work for indefinite time period”, Sanjay Gehlot, president of the Mazdoor Vikas Sanyukta Morcha, told.
