Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Sunday announced a bonanza of welfare schemes in the interest of sanitation workers in the state.
“The monthly salary of sanitation workers working in rural areas has been increased from Rs 12,000 to Rs 14,000 per month and monthly salary of sanitation workers working in urban areas has been increased from Rs 15,000 to Rs 16,000 per month,” said the Chief Minister during ‘Safai Mitra Utthan Sammelan’ in Karnal.
He said, “Instead of getting a monthly salary of Rs 10,000, the sewerage man will now get Rs 12,000 per month.
While ensuring salaries on time without any delay, the Chief Minister said that in case of delay in salary, the salary of sanitary workers will be paid from the amount of Rs 1 crore that has been provided to the Deputy Commissioner. Even then if there is a delay in the payment of salaries due to some reason, then they will get an additional compensation of Rs 500 along with the salary of next month.
Besides this, there will be no diversion of budget allocated by the Finance Department for the salaries of sanitary workers, he announced.
Khattar said that high risk conditions prevail in sewage cleaning works. For the protection of sanitary workers, a new technology has been introduced in Rewari and Gurugram in the state. Under the new arrangements, all sewage manholes will be connected to sensors. In case of overflow in sewage manhole, there will be an alert in the concerned office and cleaning will be done by machines, he added.He further said that an insurance compensation of Rs 10 lakh is provided to the family of the workers engaged in sewage cleaning. Upon the death of the workers engaged in works other than sewage cleaning, a benefit of Rs. 5 lakh will be provided under Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Suraksha Bima Yojana while a sum of Rs 2 lakh will be provided after natural death of the worker.
The Chief Minister announced that according to the rules, the benefit of the ex-gratia is provided to regular employees. In future, this benefit will be provided to all on-roll sanitary workers.
Sanitary workers having annual income of upto Rs 1.80 lakh will be able to take a collateral free loan for education of their children and if a person is not able to pay such loan, then it will be compensated by the State Government.
Training will be provided for the job of sewer man and only those who have obtained a certificate for the same will be allowed for sewage cleaning works, he said. The Chief Minister also announced that in the future, priority would be given to senior sanitation workers engaged on contract basis working for 10-15 years to give contract for the salary of the sanitation workers.