India, Sept. 10 -- Two years after they won a long-drawn legal battle and became permanent employees of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), 580 sanitary workers will finally start getting their due wages. The Bombay High Court on August 25 disposed off a petition by Kachara Vahatuk Shramik Sangh (KVSS) (Garbage Transport Workers Union), after the BMC promised to clear off the worker's pending salaries and arrears.

In 2023, the BMC had declared the 580 sanitation workers as its permanent employees. A year later, the KVSS moved the high court seeking the implementation of the Supreme Court order which had asked the BMC to grant those workers permanency as well as monetary benefits. Despite many of the workers serving the BMC sinc...