Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
East Delhi is staring at yet another sanitation crisis, the third in as many years, with over 16,000 workers threatening to go on an indefinite strike from Friday over non-payment of salaries, an issue caught up in political stink. The protest threat triggered fears of a rerun of October's 2015 and January 2016 strikes when piles of garbage on roadsides sparked fears of disease. Sanitation is the sole responsibility of the municipal bodies in over 96% of the national Capital. Except South Delhi Municipal Corporation, both the North Delhi and East Delhi civic bodies had been running massive budgetary deficits and have survived on support from the Delhi government and the Centre ever since the Municipal Corporation of Delhi was trifurcated in 2012.
