5 days on, waste collectors turn up in Chandigarh's Sector 21

Chandigarh, May 18

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After a gap of five days, door-to-door waste collectors turned up for collecting garbage in Sector 21, providing respite to people.

Local residents were surprised to see collectors coming in both rehris and two-bin vehicles to their houses to collect waste. Due to payment issues between the MC and collectors, some workers were operating independently.

Some collectors even tried to stop MC vehicles from collecting waste. The police were deployed to ensure that the vehicles were not stopped. The collectors had arguments with the police.

“A lot of garbage had accumulated at our houses. It was lifted after five days. The MC must streamline waste collection,” said KS Gill, president of the RWA, Sector 21-B.

FOSWAC chairman Baljinder Singh Bittu said, “The problem erupted as the MC is not paying the collectors properly. The civic body should hand over the collection system to the RWAs as it has failed to manage it even after so many days of launching it.”

The collectors held a meeting with Mayor Ravi Kant Sharma yesterday after which they turned up for work. — TNS