Accusing the BJP-ruled municipal corporations for being insensitive towards plights of its employees, AAP’s chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said the civic bodies have not paid doctors, scavengers, teachers and about 700 data entry operators for the past several months.
Bhardwaj said that if the BJP cannot pay salaries to its employees, the party has no right to run the MCD. “The BJP should immediately resign and hand over the MCD to AAP which will show them how to run the MCD, pay salaries to its workers and clean the city within the same money and with the same system.
Leader of Opposition from South Delhi Municipal Corporation, Prem Singh Chauhan said that about 700 data operators, who put their lives on risk while working during the Corona period in the North and South Delhi Municipal Corporations, are not getting salaries for several months and their situations have worsened as they cannot afford meals for their families. SR
A data operator present at the press conference said “We are only demanding our rightful salaries. The situation in our house remains very grave. We are not able to afford meals, we do not have the money to pay our children’s school fees, and we are repeatedly receiving texts from their schools to pay the fees,”
Even during the peak of the Corona pandemic, all the data operators have come out of their homes and have worked to their full capacities, despite the fact that we were not paid our dues, he added.