Corporation to terminate striking breeder checkers
By IANSWednesday, September 8, 2010
NEW DELHI - The services of domestic breeder checkers (DBC), who continued their strike for the third day Wednesday, will be terminated if they don’t report for work Thursday, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has warned.
Presenting its stand on the issue in the standing committee meeting, Municipal Commissioner K.S. Mehra said: “The Corporation will issue a public notice on this issue tomorrow (Thursday). All the DBC workers involved in the strike should report on or before Thursday evening. Those who fail to do so will definitely be terminated.”
He said he conducted two meetings with the DBC association and they had “accepted to withdraw the strike but never kept their word”.
Mehra also said that at a time when the city is suffering from severe dengue outbreak, the workers going in for strike is not a good sign.
According to MCD, 74 new dengue cases were recorded in the capital Wednesday, raising the total to 1,512 cases.
“We will terminate them for sure if they are not reporting Thursday. New people will be recruited immediately for this job,” Mehra assured.
The DBCs, who go door-to-door to check mosquito breeding, have been demanding regularisation of jobs for long. In 2008, they had observed a 47-day strike with the same demand.
