As many as 2300 sanitation workers of Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) ended their indefinite strike on Tuesday and resumed work after a conversation with the City administrator. For the first time, garbage was not collected from the Chief Ministers residence and the Raj Bhawan. Ranchi Municipal Corporation workers collect about 600 tons of garbage on a regular basis from 2.40 lakh houses in the City. Heaps of garbage piled on the roads as residents were compelled to throw trash from their homes in the road side dustbins on Tuesday. About 1800 workers, 80 zonal, transport and ward supervisors and more than 100 small garbage lifting vehicle drivers were involved in the agitation which started on Monday morning at Naga Baba Khatal in Ranchi. The umbrella body of the protestors- RMC Safai Karamchari Sangh initiated the strike to urge the civic body to accept its five major demands including regularisation of workers who have been working with the body for over a decade, raise and clearance of DA and equal pay for similar category of workers.  Some of us have not received salaries for work done during the pandemic while some other are due to receive their DA. Workers who have completed 10 years with the body should be regualarised. Equal pay should be given for equal work. After a meeting with the administrator, we got it in writing that our demands will be taken up with the senior authorities. With this assurance, our workers will resume work from Wednesday onwards. We went on a strike raising the same concerns about two years ago as well, said Dayanad Yadav, President of the workers outfit. Due to the strike, work like door- to- door garbage collection, cleaning garbage dump from road side, sweeping of roads, water supply from tankers, cleaning of drains, fogging and spraying of chemicals to prevent vector borne diseases during monsoon and many other services came to a halt in all the 53 wards in the City. Sanitation workers end strike, to resume work today Strap: Due to agitation, garbage from CM residence, Raj Bhawan remains uncollected PNS Ranchi As many as 2300 sanitation workers of Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) ended their indefinite strike on Tuesday and resumed work after a conversation with the City administrator. For the first time, garbage was not collected from the Chief Ministers residence and the Raj Bhawan. Ranchi Municipal Corporation workers collect about 600 tons of garbage on a regular basis from 2.40 lakh houses in the City. Heaps of garbage piled on the roads as residents were compelled to throw trash from their homes in the road side dustbins on Tuesday. About 1800 workers, 80 zonal, transport and ward supervisors and more than 100 small garbage lifting vehicle drivers were involved in the agitation which started on Monday morning at Naga Baba Khatal in Ranchi. The umbrella body of the protestors- RMC Safai Karamchari Sangh initiated the strike to urge the civic body to accept its five major demands including regularisation of workers who have been working with the body for over a decade, raise and clearance of DA and equal pay for similar category of workers.  Some of us have not received salaries for work done during the pandemic while some other are due to receive their DA. Workers who have completed 10 years with the body should be regualarised. Equal pay should be given for equal work. After a meeting with the administrator, we got it in writing that our demands will be taken up with the senior authorities. With this assurance, our workers will resume work from Wednesday onwards. We went on a strike raising the same concerns about two years ago as well, said Dayanad Yadav, President of the workers outfit. Due to the strike, work like door- to- door garbage collection, cleaning garbage dump from road side, sweeping of roads, water supply from tankers, cleaning of drains, fogging and spraying of chemicals to prevent vector borne diseases during monsoon and many other services came to a halt in all the 53 wards in the City.

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