On Thursday, the striking municipal workers dumped garbage and shouted slogans outside Sisodia’s office as a way to protest against non-payment of their salaries.
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A PWD taskforce has been formed by the Delhi government for picking up garbage that has been piling up across the city because of a strike by the employees of three civic bodies. What happened to the money the corporations get from the parking, advertising, house tax, toll tax, and property conversion?
AAP volunteers were seen clearing the garbage in Khajoori area of Delhi as MCD workers’ strike entered its fifth day today.
“The salaries of municipal corporation employees should be given immediately”.
Striking municipal workers are unwilling to relent over their unpaid dues and neither is the Delhi govt.
The agitating sanitation workers staged a protest in front of the residences of Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel and Delhi Health and PWD Minister Satyendar Jain.
With the Delhi Municipal Corporation’s sanitation workers on strike, the Delhi government said it will soon announce a plan for lifting the waste, saying that it will not let people in the national capital live amid piles of garbage.
“If MCD doesn’t collect tax properly and asks the government to give funds for its staff’s salaries, how will it be possible for the Delhi government?”
“It has been two-three months that the workers have not received their salaries. But we will continue to throw garbage and protest till our demands are met”, another protester said.
Over 1.5 lakh MCD employees have gone on an indefinite strike, demanding regular salaries and payment of arrears among others, also struck work at the headquarters of SDMC and NDMC at the Civic Centre.
The civic body is divided into three zones, all three run by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Alleging “corruption” in the Delhi government’s exercise to lift garbage, he claimed the strike-hit East Delhi Municipal Corporation and North Delhi Municipal Corporation lifted far more garbage than the staff deployed by the AAP government.
