Sanitation workers start 2-day hunger strike

Sanitation workers on Thursday started a two-day hunger strike outside the Municipal Corporation office near Sadar Bazaar here to press for their long-pending demands.

They sat on a strike on a call of the Nagar Palika Karamchari Sangh, Haryana.

Kailash Sangeliya, an activist of the sanitation workers, said the state government had in principle accepted most of their demands, but these were not being implemented. So, they were forced to go on a hunger strike.

“If the government will not accept our demands, we will be forced to intensify our strike in the days to come,” Kailash warned.

Their main demands are inclusion of Fire Department in the municipal corporations/committees, implementation of agreements between the state government and the employees with regard to ESI and EPF facilities to door-to-door waste collectors, salary through bank to all sanitation workers, creation of new posts in proportion to the population, permanent recruitment on vacant posts, restoration of old pension scheme, recruitment of sanitation workers on a regular basis by cancelling manpower contracts and regularisation of services of contractual and part-time employees.