When contacted, Karporation executives have blamed the lack of planning on the part of the procurement commission in buying new automated broom-sets for more than 54,000 sanitation workers in the city.
The automated brooms have a rotary motion that allows the sanitation workers to clean the area allotted to them much faster. Each sanitation worker has to cover more than 60,000 sq. ft. of area every day.
When contacted, the procurement commission's chairman, Mr. Sabrok Singh said, "This is all because of the Commonwealth Games. We were sourcing the brooms from the same company that supplied cleaning equipment for Commonwealth Games but went out of business due to delayed payments."
The dilli municipality is now forced to source normal brooms at Rs. 600 a piece, double the original cost, from Thailand.
One of the safai karamcharis, Hari babu, said, "It has not only caused us a lot of work backlog, our plans of starting the Annual Quidditch Games has also gone for a toss."
Meanwhile, the karamchari union had to delay their protest march due to excessive stench of uncleared garbage near Jantar Mantar.
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