Even as the striking civic agencies staff, including sanitation workers, have claimed to have resumed work, a look at city’s condition shows that garbage thrown during protest days is still stinking on the streets. The workers also said they haven’t received the salaries as yet, even though the three MCDs have filed an affidavit stating that they have disbursed the salaries of all the employees.
Areas like Patparganj, Yamuna Vihar, Okhla, laxmi Nagar, Pandav Nagar, Geeta Colony, Shahdara, Durgapuri were stinking of garbage as the workers only cleaned the roads leaving aside the heaps of garbage. Garbage pile-ups were also seen near Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, Civil lines, Karol Bagh and Nizzamudin area. Most parts of East Delhi were worst hit as it made it difficult for passerbys to walk through.
The union of workers had on Monday said they will resume their services and begin lifting up garbage soonest in the interest of the public at large. The 12-day-long strike has left behind it the uphill task of remove garbage mess that has been piling-up. If the numbers are anything to go by, around 8,600 metric tonnes of waste is generated daily and the sanitation workers will have to clean up 1,03, 200 metric tonnes of waste. The three municipal corporations have 65,000 sanitation workers, 1,500 dhalaos, 500 trucks and thousands of auto-dippers in place to keep up the sanitation services daily.
Moreover, the members of MCD unions also stated in the High Court that they had not received their due salaries despite MCD claiming the contrary. "We have not received salaries as of now, we are just awaiting it. The MCDs filed an affidavit in the High Court and said that they have disbursed the salaries. May be the salaries will be released later, but till now we have not received anything," said Rajender Mewati, General Secretary of United MCD Front.
As per the statistics, the city generates around 8,600 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste daily. SDMC generates 3,200 metric tonnes of solid waste, NMC 2,800 metric tonnes and EDMC generates 2,600 metric tonnes.