New Delhi, Nov. 3 -- The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has hired 2,000 sanitation workers for three months on an outsourcing model to increase the presence of field workers for night time cleaning and the winter pollution season, said senior municipal functionaries. The move has however triggered objection from the sanitation workers union who accused it of increasing the number of contractual workers, instead of creating more permanent posts.

The union staged a symbolic protest at the Civic Centre on Monday, opposing the privatisation of these appointments. They also held a meeting with Mayor Pravesh Wahi. The union has demanded that all existing daily-wage and temporary sanitation workers currently employed by the corporation be...