MLA Vedavyas Kamath & Bharath Shetty Intervene: Direct The Concerned to Deploy Vehicles For Waste Collection

As many as 870 city sanitary workers are on strike since five days in Mangalore. The two MLAs of Mangalore city, MLA Vedavyas Kamath & MLA Bharath Shetty have directed Antony Waste Handling Cell Pvt. Ltd., which handles solid waste of the city for Mangalore City Corporation, to deploy 60 vehicles for the door-to-door collection of garbage from Friday.

They took stock of the situation by holding a meeting with Mayor Jayananda Anchan and the Commissioner of the corporation Channabasappa and others at the corporation. The service providers handling the wet wells and sewage treatment plants (STPs) were asked to deploy operators to manage them. In case if anybody prevented them from discharging their duties police help will be sought to deal with the situation.