Regularise contract staff, demand unions

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, February 23

Members of various unions met AK Sinha, Principal Secretary, Department of Local Government, Punjab, and raised issues related to employees. Members of the Municipal Employees Sangharsh Committee, Ludhiana, submitted a memorandum in this regard to the Principal Secretary.

Committee chairman Ashwani Sahota and president Jasdev Singh Sekhon said they had sought regularisation of services of contractual employees.

They demanded that the rank of ‘safai sainik’ should be awarded to all safai karamcharis and sewer men in the state and they be given facilities like ‘sainiks’.

They said amended pay scales should be implemented for chief sanitary inspectors and sanitary inspectors of all municipal corporations of the state. They also demanded that the job of three suspended sanitary inspectors should be resumed.

Meanwhile, a delegation of the Municipal Karamchari Dal, led by chairman Vijay Danav and president Chaudhry Yashpal, also met the Principal Secretary. Danav said they demanded to regularise the services of contractual employees at the earliest.

He said many of the contractual employees had been working for a long time but they were yet to be regularised. They also raised other issues being faced by safai karamcharis.

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