Day 3: Situation worsens in city

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 21

To end the strike of safai karamcharis, Mayor Asha Jaswal had sent BJP councillor Rajesh Kalia to talk to the union members. But members of the safai karamchari union said they would end the strike after their all demands were met.

For the third consecutive day today, safai karamcharis did not lift the garbage from the city. The garbage has now started overflowing from the bins and is scattered on roads in Sectors 9, 45 and 46. As the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has no backup plan, the situation is worsening day by day.

The workers continued their protest outside the Medical Officer Health (MOH) garage in the Industrial Area, Phase I. The protesters did not let any garbage-lifting vehicle to move out and lift garbage from the city.

Key demands of the union are filling of vacant 650 posts, regularisation of daily wagers, employment of family members of the deceased workers on compassionate grounds and promotion of literate sanitation workers to the post of clerks.