Bengaluru: Garbage collection to be hit as BBMP cleaners, drivers begin indefinite strike
Bengaluru: Starting Wednesday evening, around 5,300 auto tippers and 700 garbage trucks in Bengaluru have reportedly stopped operating, as cleaners and drivers have started an indefinite strike.
The workers are protesting against the BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) Solid Waste Management department, demanding that their jobs be made permanent, reported The New Indian Express.
Hundreds of workers gathered at the BBMP head office to raise their demands. Anticipating trouble, the police took them into preventive custody but released them later in the day.
The workers are asking the BBMP to implement the IPD Salappa report and give permanent jobs to drivers who handle solid waste.
TNIE quoted Thyagraj, president of the Karmikara Samrakshane Organisation, who is leading the protest, as saying that over 500 people had gathered on Wednesday, but the police stopped them from entering the BBMP office and detained them briefly.
According to the report, Thyagraj has warned that from Thursday onwards, garbage collection across the city will be badly affected.
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Illegally stored gas cylinders seized
Thane (PTI): Authorities have seized illegally stored 1,839 gas cylinders and seven vehicles worth over Rs 67 lakh in the Dombivli MIDC area of Thane district, officials said on Saturday.
A special vigilance team of the Mumbai Rationing Department detected an illegal storage of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders in Phase-2 of Dombivli (East).
Cylinders belonging to multiple gas agencies were found stockpiled in closed vehicles, unauthorised warehouses, and open sheds without mandatory permissions from the Explosives Department, Fire Department, or oil companies, according to an official release.
