The Times of India 01.06.2010
Garbage lifters to go on strike from today
JAIPUR: Garbage lifters will go on strike from Tuesday owing to non- payment of dues for the past 10 months. Citizens now have yet another woe in the form of stinking neighbourhood and piles of garbage at roadside and at garbage depots across the city's 30 wards. However, JMC top brass, assured that alternative arrangements would be made but many wonder how the civic body would cope with this new crisis.
The proposed strike would adversely affect the entire Walled City and six wards of the Civil Lines zones. Despite parleys for hours at the JMC headquarters on Monday between the JMC top brasses and the contractors union, no solution was reached. Rakesh Yadav, a contractor who has been running from pillar to post to get his dues of over Rs 5 crores said the contractors can not do without pyment any longer.
"We can not force the labours to go hungry for months. Now the mayor and the CEO want us wait for another few months without payment." said Yadav.
He questioned how the contractors could continue with their job of lifting and transporting the garbage to the landfill sites.
As the heritage contractor's strike entered 140th day the strike called by the garbage contractors would virtually stall the city's civic services fear most of the residents. For past one year neither any repair work nor any new development project has taken off, the littered garbage all across the road at deports would make the air stale. The chief executive officer(CEO) RP Jain told toi that since the JMC does lift and transport the garbage from the 46 wards of the city , the strike would have no impact. " We would make an effective arrangement" said he.
The proposed strike would adversely affect the entire Walled City and six wards of the Civil Lines zones. Despite parleys for hours at the JMC headquarters on Monday between the JMC top brasses and the contractors union, no solution was reached. Rakesh Yadav, a contractor who has been running from pillar to post to get his dues of over Rs 5 crores said the contractors can not do without pyment any longer.
"We can not force the labours to go hungry for months. Now the mayor and the CEO want us wait for another few months without payment." said Yadav.
He questioned how the contractors could continue with their job of lifting and transporting the garbage to the landfill sites.
As the heritage contractor's strike entered 140th day the strike called by the garbage contractors would virtually stall the city's civic services fear most of the residents. For past one year neither any repair work nor any new development project has taken off, the littered garbage all across the road at deports would make the air stale. The chief executive officer(CEO) RP Jain told toi that since the JMC does lift and transport the garbage from the 46 wards of the city , the strike would have no impact. " We would make an effective arrangement" said he.
