Udhagamandalam: This smell of rotten garbage that accumulates on the roadside that welcomes one person to the Ooty tourist city.
Garbage collection in the city has been jammed three days ago, with Ooty City Workers boycott work to register their protests against delays in channeling salaries for June.
Now, all roads in the city are decorated with a garbage pile.
On Monday, city workers, including sanitation workers, continued protests in front of the city office for fourth day in a row.
Then, a conversation was held between trade unions and the municipal authorities.
Ravi, Executive Member, the Association of Workers Association, said, “During the conversation, the city authority has convinced to pay a delayed salary for all workers.
We must shake to remove garbage from the streets.
Because there is no collection of garbage for three days, the community has dumped it on Roadside.
“Of the 500 municipal workers, including those who contracted, around 300 of them were sanitation workers.
The municipality has praised the salary for sanitation workers to their bank account on Friday.
“Now, we want the municipality to solve a delayed salary for the remaining workers,” Ravi said.
A Shanmugam, a local resident, said the streets in the city of Ooty were dirty.
“Sanitation officers keep the city clean.
Their salaries cannot be detained for a month.” Saraswathi, Commissioner of Ooty City, said workers were not paid because of the crisis of funds.
“We cannot collect commercial taxes from lodges, lodges, and other business companies because of the situation of the pandemic.
We also have not received RS42 Crore as a rental of shop owners in the Ooty City Market.” Shows that sanitation workers are paid for June salaries on Friday, he said They don’t know why they are still protesting without returning to work.
City workers, meanwhile, are likely to receive calls to call protests on Tuesday.
Garbage on the street lifts the smell in ooty
