After 12 days strike, sanitation workers resume work

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After ending the 12 days long strike late on Thursday night, sanitation workers in Dehradun continued the task of removing the backlog of garbage and sprucing up the level of sanitation in the provisional state capital. According to information provided by officials of the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun, on Tuesday a total of 30 different parts of the city were successfully cleaned on the fourth day after the end of the strike. According to the data given by the MCD, the garbage points at 30 locations including Haridwar Road, Dispensary Road, lakshmi Road, Vijaynagar, Sahastradhara Road, Yamuna Colony, Vasant Vihar and Railway Ground among others were cleaned. The municipal corporation deployed 40 trolleys and 24 dumpers to collect and transport about 192 tonnes of garbage from the different parts of the city. Along with the clearing of garbage, the sprinkling of bleaching powder and fumigation was also undertaken in parts of the city to tackle the health risk posed by pests like mosquitoes.

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