Strike by sanitation workers enters second day in Visakhapatnam
The Hindu
Handling garbage generated from Giri Pradakshina is a cause of worry for civic officials
The indefinite strike declared by the public health or municipal sanitation workers entered the second day on Tuesday, with no solution coming to the fore.
In Visakhapatnam city there are close to 5,500 contract health workers, which includes about 5,025 in the public health section, about 50 in the malaria wing, 214 drivers, 61 in the veterinary and over 14 security personnel.
All have struck down work since Monday and the residents have already started to complain about stink and piling up of garbage from different areas.
The workers have been demanding the restoration of their ₹21,000 wages, which have been cut short to ₹18,000 by the State government.
Earlier, a worker was getting a salary of ₹15,000 and an additional ₹6,000 as medical allowances, totalling ₹21,000. Now suddenly the State government has clubbed both and announced a consolidated pay of ₹18,000, which is unacceptable, said Venkat Reddy of AP State Municipal Workers Joint Action Committee.
They have to immediately restore the old salary and as well as start the talks for taking the salary scale to the minimum time scale wages level of ₹27,550, he said.
The workers also have been demanding to make them permanent employees, as promised to them by Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, during his padayatra before the elections.
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