Safai karamcharis stop lifting garbage across city

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 19

Safai karamcharis stopped lifting of garbage from garbage bins across the city today.

Pressing for their long-pending demands, the safai karmchari union members staged a protest outside the Medical Officer Health (MOH) garage in the Industrial Area, Phase I, and did not let any garbage lifting vehicle to move out and lift garbage from the city.

Union president Shyam Lal Ghawri said they would not clean the city roads from tomorrow if their demands would not be fulfilled by the MC.

They also held a meeting with the MC Commissioner today but to no avail. Whereas, the MC Joint Commissioner, Manoj Khatri, said the meeting of the MC officials with the safai karamchari union members was positive and most of their demands would be fulfilled as per rules.

There are 4,000 safai karamcharis (regular and contractual) who will stop cleaning the city roads and lifting the garbage during the strike.

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.