JAIPUR: Sanitation workers of JMC-Greater and Heritage staged a protest at the civic body headquarters in Walled City on Friday.
They submitted a ten-point demand and threatened to go on an indefinite strike if their demands were not fulfilled by January 24. Their demands include end of probation period of employees hired in 2018, clearing gratuity of retired sanitation workers, giving contractual jobs to sanitation workers laid off by BVG firm, among others.
Sanyukt Valmiki and Safai Karamchari Sangh president Nand Kishore Dandoriya said, “It’s been more than a year of retirement of many sanitation workers but their gratuity and PF have not been released yeat. The sanitation workers hired in 2018 are still on probation. Many upper caste sanitation workers have been appointed in offices as they are avoiding cleaning the roads. These are some of our issues and if they are not resolved, then we will go on an unlimited days strike from January 25.”
About 21 sanitation workers of JMC-Heritage and Greater took part in the protests. A memorandum of their demands will be submitted to chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday. A copt of it will also be given to all the MLAs of JMC-Heritage areas. On January 24, a mass protest of all the sanitation workers of the union will be held at JMC-Heritage headquarters.
