After calling off their strike, majority of sanitation staff resumed their duties and cleared the heaps of garbage, which piled up in few areas in the city. However, sanitation conditions in few other localities still remain unhygienic as many workers are yet to attend their duties.
Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) officials claimed of the 4,050 sanitation workers engaged by the civic body, nearly 3,000 attended to the duties and cleared garbage from many areas in the city.
They also claimed disinfectants were being sprayed in the colonies, besides taking up fogging activities to curb the spread of viral fevers.
Though the workers joined the duties and cleared garbage in core areas of the city, sanitation conditions in many areas is still poor and unhygienic conditions prevailed in several areas, especially on the city fringes.
Streets in Payakapuram, Chittinagar, Singhnagar, Rajarajeswaripeta and few other areas on the city fringes still remained unhygienic as trash was strewn all over and open plots turned into dumping yards. Similarly, heaps of garbage piled up at Kaleswara Rao Market, Rajiv Gandhi market, rythu bazaars and hill slopes areas.
Officials on the other hand claimed that efforts were being put to clear the piled up trash across the city at the earliest.
According to officials nearly 100 metric tonnes of garbage piled up due to the 16-day sanitation staff strike at different areas in the city.
“All the workers, who joined their duties on Sunday, cleared the trash in many divisions. This apart, 30 more trucks were being utilised to shift the trash to dumping yard from colonies and other market areas. Hopefully by Monday evening the entire garbage will be cleared in the city,” said a senior official.
