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MC starts registering garbage collectors

CHANDIGARH: While the strike by door-to-door garbage collectors continued for the 10th consecutive day today, the Municipal Corporation (MC) has started registering applicants for the waste collection work.

MC starts registering garbage collectors

Applicants for waste-collection job queue up at the help desk set up on the MC office premises in Sector 17, Chandigarh, on Thursday. Tribune Photo: Pradeep Tewari



Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 20

While the strike by door-to-door garbage collectors continued for the 10th consecutive day today, the Municipal Corporation (MC) has started registering applicants for the waste collection work. A help desk set up for the purpose at the MC office in Sector 17 here saw a huge rush of applicants today.

An MC official said as many as 295 registrations were done today. He said 80 women have registered themselves for the job. Among those who sought registration were graduates and Class XII passouts.

Meanwhile, the MC has increased the number of tractor-trailers for collection of household waste in the city from 52 to 75.

Leaders of protesting garbage collectors said they would not end the strike till their demands were met.

Baljinder Singh Bittu, president, FOSWAC, said the city had converted into mini dump yards ever since the strike begun. He said the waste collection arrangements made by the MC.

Panchkula waste collectors protest

Panchkula: Hundreds of members of the Door-to-Door Garbage Collectors’ Union held a protest near the MC office here on Thursday. Union president Manju Kumar said their main demands include regularisation of 1,600 employees belonging to the SC/ST category. MC Executive Officer Jarnail Singh received their memorandum. He said as per the new directions of the government, the corporation would directly hire these workers and would pay a salary of Rs 8,000 per month, which was not acceptable to them. He said if the corporation wants to hire them, it should pay minimum wages of Rs 20,000 so that they could make both ends meet. He said if the corporation accepts their demands, they would be able to keep the city clean. TNS

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