new delhi more than 7000 tonnes of garbage had accumulated across east delhi by saturday the second day of the strike called by sanitation workers over pending salarieswith streets quickly filling up and the stench stretching over kilometres the threat of an outbreak of disease is looming larger by the daycity urban development minister satyendar jain said the government was working out the modalities to provide funds to the east delhi municipal corporationthe corporation commissioner however issued orders for private operators to clear the mess 43 trucks are expected to remove garbage from sunday morningaround 30 trucks will be deployed in areas under shahdara north zone and 13 will be deployed in shahdara south zone to lift garbage said an officiala large part of laxmi nagar is covered with garbage which is leading to traffic jams this has been happening for the past two years now said jasjit singh a resident of laxmi nagar after every few months safai karamcharis are forced to go on strike the government and corporation find a way out before the situation gets out of hand it is difficult to even sit indoors nowteachers may join strike toothe safai karamchari unions are not willing to call off their strike and we need to take the load off the roads said a senior corporation official the corporation edmc is busy collecting bribes and is not generating revenue from the resources it has i dont know where they spend the money we give them said jain he however assured swift action on the crisis we will definitely do something for the salaries of the staff but we will give money for salary and nothing else lieutenant governor anil baijals office too is learned to be tracking the developments to ensure a resolution of the problemseveral edmc employees including doctors and from the education department have not been paid for months now the latter have threatened to join the strike from midjanuarythe bjpruled east corporation says trifurcation is the root cause of all problems and blames the aapled delhi government for not implementing the fourth delhi finance commission reporthad the fourth finance commission report been implemented we would have got rs 4928 crore which is due from 2012 but the government has failed to implement the report this would have solved all of our problems said satya sharma mayor of east corporationsanjay gehlot president of swachhta karamchari union said whenever we approach the corporation they pass the buck to the delhi government and the government remains a mute spectator as a result the workers are suffering we havent received our salaries for the past two months we are not able to pay school fees of our children we have to pay our bills and house rentwhere is the money going to come from manoj lehra a safai karamchari who works in shakurpur area said at times when we ask our relatives for money they refuse to lend we dont have that much of savings that will help us