Amritsar MC staff resumes sanitation work

Tribune News Service
Amritsar, March 31

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The safai karamcharis and other employees of the Municipal Corporation (MC) resumed their duties and started lifting heaps of garbage here today. In the last five days, around 600 metric tonne of garbage had piled up on the city streets. After ending the strike, the safai karamcharis have to make hard efforts to lift the heaps of garbage.

However, the union leaders claimed that they would clean the entire city in two days but the workers have to make extra efforts to tackle the situation.

Ashu Nahar, president, Municipal Youth Employees Federation, said, “We have resumed the work and major heaps would be lifted till the evening. The city would be cleaned within one or two days”. The union activists claimed that MLA Inderbir Singh Bolaria had assured them to fix their meeting with Local Bodies Minister Brahm Mohindra to address the issues.

“We are demanding to recruit 800 safai karamcharis to streamline the sanitation work in the city. Apart from this, 195 sewermen should be recruited. The MC has sacked 46 frontline workers, who were recruited after outbreak of Covid-19. We are struggling for their reappointment. Other demands would be addressed on local level,” said Ashu Nahar.

It is worth mentioning that on the call of five separate unions of MC employees, the workers had suspended the lifting of garbage on Friday. Even after meeting with Mayor Karmajit Singh Rintu the employees not ended the strike. Finally after the intervention of MLA South, the employees called off their strike on Tuesday.