July 11, 2026 12:48 pm (IST)
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Delhi garbage logjam: MCD teachers join other employees as strike enters day 7
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IBNS): Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has called an emergency meeting with the 27 unions of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) as the logjam between Delhi's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government and the BJP-led MCD over funding of salaries of MCD employees took a turn for the worse with teachers from nearly 16,000 schools deciding to strike work on Monday.
The teachers are the latest to join the corporations' sanitation workers who have been protesting for the past five days and the doctors and other medical workers.
According to media reports, on Monday, hundreds of sanitation workers protested outside the North MCD office.
Employees also dumped garbage outside the residence of Delhi Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra on Monday; two days ago, they had targeted Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
With Sisodia and Tiwari and several others cleaning up the garbage accumulated or strewn on the street with their team of supporters, the MCD protesters have said they will not allow the state government workers to clear the garbage from the streets.
On Sunday, Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal supported striking sanitation employees of Delhi's three main civic bodies seeking salaries.
Kejriwal tweeted "I support demand of protesting MCD employees that they shud get their full salaries. I hope some solution will emerge after Tue HC hearing."
The State Public Works Department has appointed its own task force to clean the garbage off the streets as over 60,000 sanitation workers along with over 7,000 doctors & 12,000 engineering staff continue to be on strike.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain on Sunday held an emergency meeting at his residence where he met the North and East MCD Commissioners to discuss the ongoing crisis.
He tweeted later PWD continued garbage cleaning throughout the night. "Continuous work of 48 hours now. Let us clean our Delhi," he tweeted.
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