EDMC files complaint against striking workers

The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) on Tuesday filed a complaint against office-bearers of the MCD Safai Karamchari Workers’ Union for threatening corporation officials.

In a letter to the Station House Officer of Anand Vihar police station, Labour Department officials stated that the union’s president Sanjay Ghelot, during a protest in front of Chief Minister Arvind Kejirwal’s residence, had allegedly threatened to blind sanitary inspectors who forced safai karamcharis to work.

The letter also cited a complaint registered with the Labour Department by Mukesh Vaid, president of the All Municipal Corporations Sanitation Supervisors’ Union, regarding threats from office-bearers of the

safai karamchari union.

Mr. Ghelot said that the allegations were false and that the sanitary inspectors were threatening women

safai karamchari workers.

The workers’ union has been on strike since September 12 over wage-related issues. The amount of garbage being collected has seen a small dip, but officials stated that garbage is being collected normally. Corporation records showed that an average of 2,212 metric tonnes (MT) of waste was collected daily since the beginning of September. On September 16, 1,790 MT of garbage was collected.

Commenting on the continued garbage collection, Mr. Ghelot said: “The corporation is able to maintain its garbage collection by hiring private parties. We have only effected a slow down so far.

Safai Karamcharis are reporting for duty but not doing work.”