AAP volunteers clearing garbage. Mayors of all three municipal corporations of Delhi on Thursday assured Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia of bringing the striking workers back to work though they refused to end their strike after Rs.551-crore loan announcement.
“Met all the three mayors just now. They have assured me that they are making all efforts to get the striking employees back to work,” Sisodia tweeted after meeting the mayors.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced a loan of Rs.551 crore to pay pending salaries of agitating workers of two municipal corporations.
However, the employees refused to call off their strike and said the funds were not a permanent solution to the financial crisis.
The mayors of North and East Delhi municipal corporations had said they would accept Rs.551 crore as a “grant” as the Delhi government was to pay Rs.3,000 crore to the local bodies as per the 3rd Delhi Finance Commission report.
The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain a plea seeking direction to three civic bodies in the capital to take steps to resolve the strike by their employees that has resulted garbage piling up in the city.
“Go to the high court,” the apex court bench headed by the Chief Justice T.S. Thakur said as the counsel for the petitioner Rahul Birla told the court that the Delhi High Court has adjourned the hearing without passing any directions to the civic body.
Dismissing the plea as withdraw, Chief Justice Thakur told the petitioner’s counsel: “Why do you file such petitions. Go to the high court.”