The strike by home breeding checkers (DBC) and multi-tasking employees (MTS) of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) entered its tenth consecutive day on Wednesday with employees marching from Rajghat to Delhi Secretariat, demanding a gathering with Chief Minister Rekha Gupta to press for his or her long-pending calls for.
However, employees stated they had been left “deeply dissatisfied” after the Chief Minister didn’t meet them. The protest has seen over 5,200 employees from the Public Health Department on an indefinite strike. Their key calls for embody regularisation of providers, equal and standardised pay, medical and earned depart, and compensatory jobs for the households of deceased staff.
“Even although the Chief Minister was current within the Secretariat, she didn’t give us even two minutes to hearken to our calls for. This was a really painful second for the staff,” stated Devanand Sharma, basic secretary of the Anti-Malaria Ekta Karmachari Union.
He added that the protest would proceed till the federal government takes motion. “Our strike won’t finish till the Commissioner or the federal government passes an administrative order accepting our calls for,” Mr. Sharma stated.
Pay disparity
A serious level of rivalry is the unequal pay construction throughout MCD zones. While employees in six of the 20 zones obtain ₹27,000 per thirty days, these in different zones are paid solely ₹17,000 to ₹19,000, in step with minimal wage requirements. “We have been working in the identical roles for years, doing equivalent work throughout town, but there isn’t any uniformity in our pay. This inequality is one in every of our major calls for, and we won’t settle for obscure assurances anymore,” Mr. Sharma stated.
Published – October 09, 2025 01:46 am IST
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