Offering sops to safai karamcharis ahead of lok Sabha election Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said that the state government will appoint over 40,000 new sanitation workers and also announced increase in honorarium of contractors working with safai karamcharis.
Addressing a safai mazdoor rally here on Tuesday CM said that Government has decided to appoint over 40,000 safai karamcharis and provide machines for clearing sewage lines. In case of death of a safai karanchari during cleaning a sewere line the Government will pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family members of the deceased.
"This is Samajwadi Party Government that is bound to fulfill the promises it had made during election campaign. We have assured the safai Karamcharis that the SP Government will solve their problems and now we are doing the same," he told karamcharis who came in large number to attend the rally at Jhulelal Park.
Chief Minister also announced increase in honorarium of contractors working with safai karamcharis from existing Rs 120 per day to Rs 250 per day. "A three member high powered committee will be set up that will look into the roblems of Safai Karamcharis and solve them in a time bound manner," he said.
Hitting out at previous BSP Government he said that Mayawati Government had announced to appoint one lakh safai karamcharis but had appointed just 65,000. The size of cities have increased in recent times. The pressure in immense on existing safai karamcharis to keep cities clean. To ease that pressure the Samajwadi Party Government has decided to appoint 40,000 karamcharis more," Chief Minister said.
Samajwadi Party national president Mulayam Singh Yadav said that earlier Balmiki samaj was considered to be the mast backward. Now, the situation has changed. There is political awakening in the Balmiki Samaj and it knows what is good for them and what is not, Yadav Sr. said.Urban Development Minister Md Azam Khan also spoke on this occasion.