Delhi's sanitation workers to go on indefinite strike from January 27

NEW DELHI: Scores of municipal sanitation workers on Wednesday decided to go on an indefinite strike from January 27 claiming the civic bodies' failure in meeting their demands, including regularisation of salary .

The workers have been sitting on a relay hunger strike for the past month at the Jantar Mantar under various unions.

"Under the banner of Swatantra Mazdoor Vikas Sanyukt Morcha, we have been sitting on relay hunger strike from December 1 but our demands of regular salary, payment of arrears, regularisation and promotion have failed to evoke any response from the municipal corporations or the government," president of the Morcha Sanjay Gehlot said.

"We have decided to go on strike from January 27 since we do not want to cause inconvenience during the festival of Makar Sankranti and the Republic Day celebrations," he said.

It is likely that a large number of teachers, doctors, nurses and engineers, besides the class III and IV employees serving under the three corporations - NDMC, SDMC and EDMC - will participate in the strike as their salary payment is also delayed by two-four months, Gehlot claimed.

Recently, teachers, nurses and engineers of the municipal bodies had also gone on protest.