In order to redress the concerns of safai karmacharis and also to ensure proper execution of welfare schemes launched for their welfare, chairman of National Commission for Safai Karmacharis Manhar Valji Bhai Zala and a commission member Manju Diler met the district officers at Collectorate in Dehradun on Wednesday and reviewed things related to the sanitation employees working in the district.
Zala directed the officers concerned to ensure that sanitation workers employed by Municipal Corporation, municipalities and other departments are benefited under various schemes launched by the Government for their welfare apart from ensuring they are being paid their salaries and facilitated with necessary equipments like gloves, boots, masks, uniform and others on time. He also stressed on the sanitation workers working on temporary basis for a long period be made permanent staffs as per the norms.
Besides, the eligible employees who have been working on particular posts for long period should be promoted promptly, he said. The Municipal Corporation officers were directed to provide minimum wages and residential facilities to the sanitation workers as per the norms. Stress was also laid on providing them with regular medical check up facilities.
Commission member Diler said that Municipal Corporation officials should conduct survey of safai employees at the departmental level as well as through non- overnment organisations to see to it that the fruits of the welfare schemes reach out to the intended beneficiaries.
Besides, Diler said that the dependents of the safai karamcharis who die while in service should be provided with the benefits from the welfare schemes launched by the government. She also directed the officials concerned to desist from gender discrimination regarding appointments and asked them to appoint women as sanitation workers in greater number.
Dehradun district magistrate SA Murugeshan directed the district officers to ensure that issues raised by the commission chairman and its member are taken seriously and their instructions for implementation of welfare schemes launched by the Central government for sanitation workers are rightly executed. Others present on the occasion were ADM (administration) Harbeer Singh, city magistrate SS Martolia, DDO Pradeep Pandey, chief medical officer, Municipal Corporation Dr Kailash Gunjyal, councillor Vipin Chanchal and Safai Karamchari Municipal Corporation secretary Dheeraj Bharti.