Mayor Premananda Shetty said that earlier on Monday Deputy Commissioner K.V. Rajendra, himself (Mayor) and others had held a meeting in the office of the Deputy Commissioner and convinced the union leaders to send permanent workers to work in the interest of the people in the city.  The Mayor said that priority will be given to lift the garbage accumulated in apartments on Monday as it will be in huge quantity.

As sanitation workers withdrew their four-day State-wide strike, Mangalore City Corporation began clearing garbage dumped in public places. As the strike was also called off at the same time, later some of them returned to work in the evening.