M F AHMAD
Daltonganj, Sept 27: 60 workers under the Mukhyamantri Shramik Yojna were at work in the streets of Daltonganj lifting piles of the garbage which has rendered Daltonganj as ‘Dirtyganj’ following the ongoing strike of the sanitation workers and other employees of the local civic bodies across the state which has entered into its 8th day today.
“These Shramiks registered under the Mukhyamantri Shramik Yojna would be getting Rs 326.85 as daily wages,” said Satish Kumar, the city mission manager of the Medininagar Municipal Corporation here. He further said the wages is paid full @Rs 326.85 a day to each worker for maximum of 100 days in one financial year.
Since the sanitation workers all over the state are agitating for job and wages security, towns and cities are becoming dumping ground of the garbage and filth and Medininagar Municipal Corporation is no exception.
City manager of the Medininagar Municipal Corporation Pradeep Kumar said efforts are on to keep the town clean as Navratri has begun.
Sources said Mayor Aruna Shankar and Deputy Mayor Mangal Singh have urged the sanitation workers, who are on strike since September 20, to offer Shramdaan for two days beginning Tuesday to at least keep the town less of stinking and sinking with the garbage and filth.
A senior employee of the Medininagar municipal corporation Dheeraj Kumar said, “Our men are at work for 2 days as part of their Shramdaan but for how long the state government will remain indifferent to our most legitimate demands of regular and full payment of the wages in time.”
