The outsourced and contracted sanitation workers in Anantapur Municipal Corporation limits went on an indefinite strike from Monday, leading to the stopping of garbage collection and sweeping of the streets. The transport of solid waste was also affected with only a few vehicles moving out of the city and literally no garbage collection from street-corner dustbins or door-to-door collection.
There were only 135 regular Public Health workers in the city and the bulk of the work was being done by 409 Outsourced PH workers. Outside the Corporation Administrative Building in the city, the workers’ union leaders sat on a dharna and its members ensured that all the vehicles were stopped and none participated in the sanitation work. The main streets, however, received attention with some nominal number of regular staff sweeping them.
Outsourced workers asked the State government to immediately fulfill all their demands and pay a minimum of Rs.20,000 as monthly wages as per the PRC Recommendations and demanded regularisation of their services.
