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PMC employees’ indefinite strike cripples Patna sanitation
An indefinite strike by Patna Municipal Corporation employees has severely disrupted sanitation services across the city, with garbage piling up on major roads including Kavi Raman Path, Atal Path, and Rajiv Nagar…
The Story in Brief
An indefinite strike by Patna Municipal Corporation employees has severely disrupted sanitation services across the city, with garbage piling up on major roads including Kavi Raman Path, Atal Path, and Rajiv Nagar Main Road. Around 8,000 permanent, daily-wage, and outsourced workers downed tools on July 30 as part of a statewide agitation.
The Municipal Corporation Employees' Joint Coordination Committee demands regularisation of daily-wage workers, abolition of the outsourcing system, and restoration of ACP and MACP benefits. Talks with the Urban Development and Housing Minister on July 28 failed. PMCH Superintendent Dr Rajiv Kumar Singh warned that waste accumulation during the monsoon could raise the risk of dengue and malaria.
The Indian Opinion
Strikes at municipal bodies are often painted as reckless by commentators, but the underlying grievances, regularisation, an end to outsourcing, and fair wages, are hardly frivolous. The contractor Mauryan Carts had earlier failed to pay sanitation workers on time, a reminder that private operators do not always deliver. The test now is whether Patna's administration can negotiate seriously before the city's monsoon-accumulated waste becomes a public health emergency.
Source: thehansindia.com
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