Elated over the statement made by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao during launch of Swacch Hyderabad program on Saturday that the sanitation workers were ‘Gods’, who clear the rubbish and keep the City clean, the Telangana State CPI Council urged the former to regularize services of contract and outsourcing employees on humanitarian grounds and initiate steps to provide minimum wages to them.
In a letter addressed to the Chief Minister on Sunday, CPI State Council secretary Chada Venkata Reddy asked the Chief Minister to order a comprehensive high-level inquiry into the irregularities in the supply of footwear, soaps, oil to the municipal workers.
He stated the CM’s empty praises will not fill stomachs of municipal workers, who work in nauseating stinking places. In gram panchayats, the condition of sanitary workers is worse as they were being paid Rs 800 per month and in major gram panchayats, they were getting only Rs 2,500 that too after three to four months delay. He demanded that the government pay Rs 6,000 salary to them on first day of every month. (NSS)