National Capital is now staring at an epidemic with tons of garbage lying in the streets and the residential blocks as the strike called by the employees working in various departments of Municipal Corporatin of Delhi entered the third day on Friday with no end in sight.
A group of sanitation workers and MCD employees staged a protest outside Rai’s office in Babarpur in east Delhi and dumped garbage there while another group, under the banner of United Front of MCD Employees, put garbage outside his residence in Civil lines.
“We demand Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to pay our salary first and later settle scores with the municipal corporations,” Sanjay Gehlot, president of Swatantra Mazdoor Vikas Sanyukt Morcha, said.
He said that the protests will be stepped up and workers will hold a demonstration at Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel’s residence in Vivek Vihar if their demands were not met.
The union leader said the workers also blocked the road leading to a traffic jam at Apsara border. The striking workers had on Thursday dumped garbage outside the office and residence of Sisodia.
Sisodia had later accused BJP leaders of the three municipal corporations of “instigating” the workers to throw garbage outside the Ministers’ residences and offices.
In North Delhi, the zonal offices at Karol Bagh, Civil lines and Rohini were locked down by the striking employees and workers.
The employees at headquarters of South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) and North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) at Civic Centre also boycotted work. 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.