Swachh workers lack basic equipment to collect garbage

As PMC has failed to provide plastic buckets, employees are forced to collect garbage in bags made of cloth or plastic

- Abhay Khiarnar

PUNE: Swachh employees have alleged that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) did not provide plastic buckets for them to collect the garbage and as a result, they were forced to collect garbage in bags made of cloth or plastic for the past two years.

The employees claimed that many a time leakage from this garbage spilled on their clothes, soiling them.

According to these Swachh employees, while the PMC collects garbage from the citizens' doorsteps with their help, it does not provide them with safety gear for which they previously staged agitations in front of the PMC headquarters.

They claimed that the PMC had not provided them with plastic buckets for the past many months and these buckets were helpful in collecting wet garbage.