Group D staff gets uniforms a decade later
Sanitation workers, gardeners, and all other Group D employees of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) will be given uniforms for the first time, since its formation in 2012, on Friday. The unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi had last distributed uniforms over a decade ago. SDMC leader of the House Subhash Arya will be distributing summer and winter uniforms to 29,567 Group D employees consisting of 21,323 men and 8,244 women.
“Different departments will have different coloured clothes,” said Arya on Thursday, adding that light blue shirts would be given to some of the employees. The men will get trousers, half-sleeve shirts, sandals and caps for the summer, with woollen pants, full-sleeve shirts, shoes and socks for the winter. Women employees will get salwar kameez sets, complete with a dupatta, sandals and caps for the summer. For the winter, the women will get full-sleeve salwar kameez sets, cardigans and woollen socks and shoes.
Among the employees to get new uniforms are 21,147 safai karamcharis, 2,364 gardeners, 2,859 sanitation labourers (beldars), 245 peons, 651 security guards and 344 drivers. The SDMC’s logo will figure prominently on the collared shirts’ pockets and the front of the ladies’ kurtas as well as the caps. Such uniforms will be distributed every two years. The two sets of uniforms for all Group D employees have cost the SDMC Rs 14.21 crore from Mafatlal Industries.