Overview
- Sanitation workers across Haryana, who extended the walkout to May 14 on Monday, warned they will go indefinite if the state does not meet their demands.
- Protest actions escalated with workers dumping garbage outside civic offices and hospitals in Gurugram and outside the Faridabad civic body late Monday night, and police scuffles were reported in Karnal.
- The Urban Local Bodies department approved a ₹440 crore plan for mechanised and manual road sweeping in Gurugram, with five‑year tenders, GIS block mapping, and minimum staffing requirements for contractors.
- Municipal officials say private and contractual crews are trying to keep basic services running, yet residents and councillors report clogged roads, foul smells, and missed pickups, and an MCG house meeting set aside the strike to focus on other projects.
- Unions seek regularisation of long‑serving contractual staff, minimum wages, reinstatement of laid‑off workers, and withdrawal of charges, while opposition leaders call the trash buildup a health risk and press the government to start talks.