Safai karamcharis work on holiday

Despite being a public holiday on account of Dasehra, members of the sanitation staff at the municipal council worked to sweep roads and streets besides collecting garbage from houses.

This happened as their families waited for them to perform puja with all around them celebrating the festival.

Beat in-charges and sweepers came forward to help the residents celebrate the festival of victory of good over ill in a hygienic and clean environment in response to a call given by councillors led by the civic body’s president Vikas Krishan Sharma.

“We persuaded members of the Sanitation Department to perform their duty as usual so that residents could feel better in celebrating the festival in a clean and hygienic environment,” Roop Lal said. He added the employees working on holiday would be given a compensatory leave according to their requirement.

Appreciating gestures shown by the officials and employees of the Sanitation Department, Sharma said leaders of the Safai Mazdoor Union had agreed to get the cleanliness work done on Dasehra and Diwali despite it being a public holiday. “Though we had asked the employees to adjust their working hours according to their commitments with their families and relatives, they offered to work as usual,” Sharma said, adding that the sanitary inspector had been advised to give a compensatory leave to employees working on the holiday.

Sanitation workers sweeping roads and collecting garbage as usual came as a pleasant surprise for residents.