Door-to-door garbage collectors have intensified their protest with the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation failing to end the deadlock on the 16th day of the strike.
While the MC has increased the number of tractors-trailers for lifting garbage, residents are not happy with the arrangement.
A majority of the residents complained that no trailer reached their house. DS Sandhu, a former nominated councillor, said for the past 10 days, no garbage was lifted from his house in Sector 35. He said all houses in his vicinity faced the same problem.
Anil Kapoor, a resident of Sector 45, said the arrangement made by the MC had failed as no one came to lift garbage from his house. He said they did not have information about the timing of garbage lifting. The trailers came when they were in office.
Meanwhile, the police used water cannons on the agitating garbage collectors when they tried to burn an effigy of the Mayor. A scuffle took place between the protesters and the police when the later prevented them from blocking a road.
The Chandigarh Congress extended support to the protesting collectors at a meeting held today at Congress Bhawan. Former Union Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and city Congress chief Pardeep Chhbara were among those present at the meeting.
Over 2,000 people have registered themselves for garbage collection at the desk set up by the MC.
