Valmiki samaj give memo to DC on sanitation employees

TNN | Apr 9, 2020, 07:11 IST

Ludhiana: Members of Bhartiya Valmiki Dharam Samaj (Bhavadhas) met the deputy commissioner, Pardeep Agrawal, on Wednesday and handed over a memorandum of their demands to him. The members demanded that sanitation employees of the municipal corporation should not be deputed in isolation wards meant for Covid-19 patients.
Besides, they said their members should not be asked to lift garbage from houses where deaths had been reported due to coronavirus. They claimed that a biomedical waste collection company should be told to collect such waste. They said their employees were not fully trained for such jobs.
They also claimed that even for cremation of such patients the sanitation staff of MC should not be deployed. They said the trained staff of district health department should do this work.
In their demands they also mentioned that sanitation staff, garbage collectors and other field employees should be given hand gloves, masks, sanitisers, shoes, soaps and special medicines to increase their immunity. They further demanded that female employees should be exempted from field duty so that she should remain at home with children and other family members. They also demanded that the state government should get special check up of all such employees done who are moving out in field.
They claimed that employees who are out in field should get health insurance cover worth Rs 50 lakh and one family member should be given job on compensation grounds in case an employee loses life on duty. They added that these employees should get salaries on time.