ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh
Published on: Dec 21, 2025 07:30 am IST
Chandigarh shatter collectors protested against the MC over a controversial MoU, irritating changes. Feeble mayor promised to tackle their concerns.
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The door-to-door shatter collectors union (regd), Chandigarh, staged a dispute on Saturday in Sector 31 against the municipal corporation (MC), alleging that the November memorandum of working out (MoU) became ready in the motivate of closed doorways by officials and a opt crew of collectors.
Union leaders acknowledged protests had been ongoing for several days, intensifying on Friday when rubbish sequence vehicles had been stopped to disrupt companies. The foremost requires embody scrapping fines for minor infractions and reconsidering terms such as biometric attendance, rubbish aggregation, clinical fitness, and police character certificates.
Feeble mayor Rajesh Kalia assured the protesters that their requires and the MoU terms would be incorporated in the municipal condo agenda on December 30. He also promised the launch of pending salaries until the MoU course of is executed.
Union president Surendra Kangra acknowledged the agitation will more than seemingly be intensified if requires are not met. Then again, following Kalia’s assurances, the dispute became called off, and collectors had been urged to total the MoU course of. He also requested that no salaries be deducted for these mad by the dispute.
The dispute became attended by All India Labour Organisation president Shamsher Lotia and officials collectively with Rampal Birla, Madanlal Malik, Roshan Dulgach, Rajveer Birla, Karmaveer Bala, Vinod Lot, Ashok Chauhan, and Rajiv Bunty.
