HYDERABAD: With the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) outsourcing civic works to private companies, GHMC sanitation wing and urban community development (UCD) wing employees who worked for the companies said that they were cheated by companies and middlemen.
However, the agencies have alleged that political interference is affecting their work and that they are being blackmailed by local leaders.
Around 30 people gathered at GHMC head office on Monday alleging that they were cheated by the agencies. “A person who claimed to be an agency employee took Rs 30,000 from more than 100 people. He employed us saying we will get a permanent job, irony is we are not even getting our salaries,” said K Ashwini, a GHMC employee.
An employee of the UCD wing said that for the past four months they are not being paid their salaries. “I am working as a data entry operator in Secunderabad zone, UCD wing, and for the last four months we have not been getting salaries,” he said on condition of anonymity.
A agency looking after sanitation works alleged political interference. “Local leaders of all parties call us, they ask us to employ their staff, if we deny, they resort to blackmailing and heap allegations on us,” said an employee of a private agency.
GHMC commissioner DS Lokesh Kumar did not respond to TOI.