Delhi Garbage Crisis: Lt. Governor Jung offers Rs. 300 cr to MCD

Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung has offered Rs. 300 crore loan to the North and East Delhi municipal corporations from DDA to end the deadlock created after indifinte strike by MCD workers.

Yesterday, a delegation of agitating sanitation workers met Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and said the fund offered by the AAP government for paying their salaries were “insufficient”.

While the MCD workers refused to call off their strike, they claimed that the LG has assured them of looking into their demands.

Municipal Corporation of Delhi workers strike has entered its tenth day as people of Delhi are bound to walk through garbage mountains on roads.

The mayors of three BJP-ruled MCDs discussed the "crisis" caused by the municipal workers' strike with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and claimed the Delhi government is likely to give Rs 307 crore more to pay their salaries.