MUMBAI, Dec 17: The indefinite strike called by the workers of the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corpration (UMC) was called off on Wednesday following assurances by the civic authorities to look into their grievances.However, workers belonging to the Labour Front, which had declared the strike on Tuesday, were unhappy that over the withdrawal of the strike. ``Surely, some people must have bought our leaders over," said a civic employee at a octroi naka who wanted to know why the stir was called off merely on the basis of assurances. Mayor Ganesh Chaudhary welcomed the decision of the workers who, he said, `seem to have realised that resorting to strikes and holding the citizens to ransom will not get them anywhere.' He added, "I will take their grievances to the Chief Minister or any other authority they want to approach." According to him Municipal Commissioner Capt S H Shool's communique seeking his intervention paved the way out of the strike, since the octroi collection was zero and garbage had accumulated across the township.Dismissing the commissioner's allegation that he was involved in pocketing octroi collections as `unexpected from a senior official like Shool,' Chaudhary said, ``Shool seems to be doing this to hide his own incompetency in resolving the problems of the township.'' He said he had written to the CM about ``the urgent need to transfer Capt Shool out of Ulhasnagar.''
