Big news for contract workers in UP
The honorarium of the sanitation workers working on outsourcing in the urban bodies in Uttar Pradesh has been fixed. Now they will be given Rs 412 per day and Rs 10,712 every month. Special Secretary of Urban Development of Uttar Pradesh amit Kumar Singh has sent instructions to all the Municipal Commissioners and Executive Officers in this regard.
Let us tell you that at present there are a total of 762 urban bodies in Uttar Pradesh, in which outsourced sanitation workers work in most of the urban bodies. There was a continuous demand for giving proper salary to these sanitation workers. But now the Urban Development Department has given instructions to give minimum wages to the sanitation workers working at the hotspots.
In the instructions sent to the municipal bodies, it has been said that the daily wages of unskilled labourers working in the labour department will be Rs. 412 and they should be given honorarium for 26 days as per the four days holiday in a month and no negligence should be done in this and if any negligence comes to light anywhere, then action will be taken against the guilty officers on receiving the complaint.
9000 people will get benefit in Lucknow
There are 12000 contract employees in the Municipal Corporation of the state capital Lucknow, in which 9000 are sanitation workers who are deployed by the contracting agency. The unskilled workers among them are being paid Rs. 388 daily but due to commission-grabbing, they get only Rs. 7000 to 8000 and the contractor keeps the rest of the amount. Now they will get Rs. 10,712.