NAWABSHAH, Sept 28: Garbage dumps remained piled up in the entire city due to strike of the sanitation workers, on Friday.

Streets and markets were strewn with garbage making impossible for citizens to move due to the stink. Citizens are at the risk of catching disease because of filth. The sanitation staffs of municipal administration Nawabshah are on strike for the acceptance of their demands.

The work charge/contractual and regular sanitation staff set-up a camp at the Christian Colony boycotted the work and raised slogans against the TMA in the camp.

Punhoram, Putras Maqbool, Ashfaq Samuel, Anwar Buksha and others told reporters that the sanitary workers were not regularized since 1993. They said despite the announcement to fix minimum wage of a labour at Rs4,600, they were only getting Rs3,000.

They demanded the Taluka Nazim and other concerned officials to take notice of their problems and announce a package soon.

Taluka Nazim, Abdul Rauf Khan when contacted termed the strike of sanitation staff as unfair and said that they neither consulted him nor brought their demands to him.

He said that the TMA had provided a lot of facilities to sanitation staff besides certificates and cash prizes. He said the situation was not good due to the strike however the strike would end very soon and the garbage dumps would be removed.