Doda stinks as sanitation workers’ strike continues

r Correspondent

Doda, January 21

With sanitation workers on strike for the past eight days, garbage is piling up in different areas of Doda town.

On Monday, sanitation workers staged a strong protest in the town, demanding regularisation of their services and release of salaries.

The protesters alleged that despite working for several years, the government had not regularised their services.

Heaps of garbage have started to pile up in many areas of the city and the authorities are not taking the matter seriously, which is causing a lot of inconvenience to the locals.

Irshad Watal, a sanitation worker, said, “We are on strike for the past one week, but the administration has not approached us. We want that the casual workers who have completed seven years of service should be regularised.”

Meanwhile, Doda Municipal Committee Executive Officer Sanjay Kumar said, “We are facing a lot of problems due to the strike. We are trying to convince the sanitation workers to join their duties, but they refuse to do so. We have taken up their demands with the higher-ups.”

Sixty employees, including 27 permanent ones, are on strike for the past eight days in Doda town.