Following a meeting with chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat late on Thursday night, the sanitation workers of Dehradun finally ended their strike at the end of the twelfth day. The government has agreed to hike their daily wage to Rs 275. After the end of the strike, the workers and officials began efforts to clear the many hundred tonnes of garbage from various parts of the provisional state capital. The workers whose services had been terminated have been taken back on job. The workers have been divided into teams which work on clearing the garbage piling in the city for 12 days.
leader of Akhil Bharatiya Safai Mazdoor Sangh (ABSMS) Dheeraj Bharti said, “We met the chief minister who helped us resolve the issue. The daily wages have been increased to Rs 275 which amounts to Rs 8,250 per month now. He also promised that efforts will be made for regularisation of some of our workers. The workers have started clearing the garbage in teams working day and night. They will try to clear the garbage before the expected time,” he added
Municipal commissioner Vijay Kumar Jogdande said, “Some of their demands have been approved by the CM. Since resumption of work, we have cleared about 345 metric tonnes of garbage from different parts of the city in one day with the help of 83 trolleys and dumpers. We have cleared 26 points where garbage piles had been mounting in the past days.
The remaining garbage is expected to be cleared in the next two to three days. To expedite the task, sanitation workers have been divided into teams which are working day and night shifts,” he said.