Late wages: civic workers protest again

Employees, mostly sanitation staff, of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation on Thursday held a demonstration to protest against the delay in their salaries, which have been pending for months.

The cash-strapped EDMC has not paid sanitation staff for one month and other workers for two to three months. The protesting workers had planned to carry out a march from Raj Ghat till the Chief Minister’s Office at the Delhi Secretariat, but were stopped by the police on their way.

50th day

Thursday was also the 50th day of the EDMC workers’ protest and relay hunger strike outside the civic body’s headquarters in Patparganj. The EDMC hasn’t been able to pay salaries on time for over two years now, forcing several protests by workers. “We will not stop our agitation till there’s a permanent solution to the problem,” said Sanjay Gehlot of the MCD Swachhta Karamchari Union, which organised the protest.