Sanitation staff seek insurance cover

Charnajit Singh Teja

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, April 5

On the demand of Municipal Corporation (MC) employees, Commissioner Komal Mittal has written to the Local Government Department to give an insurance cover worth Rs1crore to the employees working against the spread of coronavirus.

Earlier, in a memorandum to the Municipal Commissioner, the office-bearers of the Municipal Corporation Employees’ Talmel Dal had demanded to give insurance cover of Rs1crore to every employee on the pattern of Delhi Government.

Vinod Kumar Bitta, president Safai Mazdoor Union, said: “We have met the Commissioner and asked her to provide an insurance cover to sanitation workers, as they are working under high risk. In case of some untoward incident during the pandemic, the families need financial support.”

They claimed that sanitation workers were worried about their health. “They are working along with suspected patients, who have been isolated and quarantined. The Delhi Government announced insurance cover of Rs1crore for sanitation workers. It will help them as they are worried about their families. The Punjab Government should also provide a cover of Rs1 crore on the pattern of Delhi Government,” Bitta said.

The MC Commissioner has written to the Local Government Department at Chandigarh about the demand of sanitation workers and asked to issue instructions in this regard.

The MC sanitation workers are working on the forefront to keep the city clean and prevent the spared of the virus.