NOIDA, Aug. 7 -- Over 2,000 sanitation workers in Noida, under the banner of MCD Swachhta Karamchari Union, are staging a protest in Noida's Sector 6 since Monday demanding better working conditions and benefits under the Employees' State Insurance (ESI) scheme.

To be sure, there are over 10,000 contractual sanitation workers deputed under various departments of Noida authority and there are only a handful of regular sanitation workers in the authority.

Under the Noida Swachhta Karamchari Union, there are around 4,531 sanitation workers.

The strike will hit the efforts of the Noida authority to keep the city clean.

The authority responded to the strike on Tuesday and said the protesters' demand for benefits under the ESI cannot be ful...