Corporator collects garbage

Guntur, May 4 (UNI) A municipal corporator today desilted the gutters at the 34th division in the city, collected the accumulated garbage, brought it to the Municipal Corporation office on a tricycle, and set fire to it, to protest the Administration's dereliction of duty.

Hundreds of residents accompanied the corporator V Sriramprasad.

As smoke and ash enveloped the areas, the Corporation officials infomred the police, who took away Mr Sriramprasad to the police station amidst protest from the people.

Garbage in some parts of the city had accumulated as sanitary workers hired by private contractors had been not been working, to press for their demands of a pay hike.

The Corporators told reporters that his appeals to the Municipal Corporation Administration to make alternative arrangements had fallen on deaf ears.

The indolent workers set fire to the garbge at every street corner in the city, polluting the environment.

UNI