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New Delhi, Oct 9 (PTI) After nearly a month-long stir, sanitation workers of the cash-strapped EDMC Tuesday ended their strike after the civic authority agreed to accept their demands, a union leader claimed.
The workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) had gone on strike on September 12 demanding regular payment of salaries and regularisation of workers. "We called off our strike today, as the mayor gave us assurance that contractual workers would be regularised in a phased manner," president of MCD Swachhata Karmchari Union Sanjay Gahlot said. The union also decided to call off the strike keeping public interest in mind as heaps of garbage, dumped at public places, were posing a health risk, he added."We had separate meetings with the East Delhi mayor and the commissioner on Tuesday and they both gave assurances about regularisation of contractual workers employed after March 1998. Our other demands are also being looked into," he said.Incidentally, the decision to end the stir comes days after the EDMC vowed to take strict action against the agitating workers.On Monday, the civic body had terminated the services of 26 contractual sanitation workers and suspended 17 others, with immediate effect for allegedly "creating obstruction" in work. However, Gahlot claimed that the suspension will be revoked."The mayor also gave us verbal assurance that these workers would also be restored," Gahlot claimed.The EDMC on Friday had issued a circular directing all the sanitation workers to resume work from October 6. As decided earlier, the authorities had also regularised services of six sanitation workers engaged on or after April 1, 1998, on the basis of seniority, the civic body said Monday. The EDMC has around 16,000 workers, half of whom are permanent employees. On September 26, it had decided to begin the process for permanent employment of contractual sanitation workers who were recruited after March 31, 1998.
New Delhi Aug 31: All restaurants and shops selling or serving meat in east Delhi will have to mandatorily display boards specifying if it is halal or 'jhatka' meat, the highest decision-making body of the area's municipal corporation has proposed.
The standing committee of the BJP-led East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) yesterday passed a resolution to that effect.
The panel's decision now awaits the nod of the EDMC House and the municipal commissioner before it is implemented.
The resolution is premised on several arguments, including that "a lot of people from Hindu and Sikh community reside in east Delhi" and there are quite a lot of restaurants serving meat (dishes).
The EDMC in the resolution claimed that consumption of halal meat is "not allowed" as per the Hindu and Sikh religions.
The it will be mandatory for all east Delhi restaurants to display a written message on the same.
"The standing committee resolves that instructions be issued that all restaurants and shops should mandatorily display boards mentioning if the meat being sold or served is halal or 'jhatka'," the resolution said.
Sources in the EDMC said, many meat-sellers and restaurants display boards mentioning the category of meat, but not all do.
The civic body issues health licences for running eateries, restaurants and meat shops in the area, which includes places like Laxmi Nagar, Mayur Vihar, Patparganj, Seelampur and Preet Vihar.
Sources also said that instructions have been issued for all restaurants and eateries in east Delhi, who are allegedly running without proper licence to acquire the same by September 15, after which action can be initiated. (PTI)
New Delhi, May 29: Expressing disapproval over the practice of dumping garbage on roads as a mark of protest, the Delhi High Court has said it was "completely intolerable".A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar was referring to the recent agitation by New Delhi Municipal Council's (NDMC) contractual sanitation workers who dumped garbage outside prominent buildings, like Shastri Bhavan and Rail Bhavan in Lutyen's Delhi, demanding regularisation of jobs and better wages.The protesting workers on May 24 had also dumped garbage outside NDMC's Convention Centre.The garbage dumps had affected traffic in some areas.Referring to the incident, the high court said,"This is no way of protesting. It is completely intolerable. It is also a public health issue." This is not the first time that municipal staff have resorted to this manner of protest.A few years back sanitation workers of East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) had dumped garbage on roads and even prevented private players, temporarily hired by the civic body, from cleaning it up.They were protesting against non-payment of wages for several months.The high court had to step in and issue directions to ensure cleanliness in the areas under EDMC control. (PTI)
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