The sanitation workers of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) staged a protest near the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to press for their demands on Thursday.
The sanitation workers of the civic body are on strike for the last three weeks. The employees are on strike since September 12 demanding regular payment of salaries and regularisation of their services.
The EDMC has around 16,000 workers, half of whom are permanent employees. The BJP-led EDMC on September 26 had decided to begin the process for permanent employment of contractual sanitation workers who were recruited after March 31, 1998.
A senior official said a meeting was underway between east Delhi Mayor and a sanitation union leader to resolve the issue. The Delhi government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it would release Rs 500 Crore within two days to civic bodies, which will help resolve the crisis that has arisen due to the ongoing strike by sanitation workers of East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC).
The president of MCD Swachhata Karmchari Union, Sanjay Gahlot had said that since there was no assurance of this resolution reaching its desired end from the authorities side, they would continue their agitation in east Delhi.