Dehradun: Even after more than two months since sanitation workers ended their strike in the city after chief minister Trivendra Rawat ceded their demands of minimum wages, the demands have not been ratified leading to simmering anger among workers.They have now threatened to go on strike again if their demands are not met. Rajesh Kumar, head of the sanitation workers’ union said that their demands have been pending for almost two years and even after the CM’s assurances their demands have not been met. “If this continues, we will again go on strike. Our workers feel cheated as even after so many days the government has not released an order in this regard.”Meanwhile, state urban development minister Madan Kaushik met a group of sanitation workers on Thursday and assured that the government is working on their demands. “The government is working on its promises to provide minimum wages to the sanitation workers as well as to employ them on contracts, and a proposal in this regard has already been sent to the CM’s office and it will be cleared very soon,” Kaushik said.Residents, however, are worried that if the demands of the workers are not met garbage will again be dumped in the city like May. “During their last strike, the city had turned into a garbage dump. If a similar strike happens during the rains, the situation will be even worse,” said Savita Uniyal, a resident of Clement Town.

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