Wages of MCG safai workers not paid, contractor booked

Gurgaon: The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has filed a police complaint against a sanitation contractor for non-payment of the salaries to sanitation workers.
The workers, alleging non-payment of salaries, had submitted three complaints with the MCG. They had also been protesting at the MCG office for the past few days.
The MCG has engaged Sai Enterprise to carry out the sweeping work (sanitation) in the area through a work order issued in June. The officials said they have been making monthly payments to the company as per the condition of the agreement and the company is responsible for the payment of salaries and wages to the sanitation workers. The sanitation workers are employed by the company.
The sanitation workers alleged that the contractor is not paying for their work. They have further alleged that as and when they asked for their salaries the contractor abused and threatened them with dire consequences, including death to being expelled from service.
“We have not been paid salaries for several months. The contractor gets abusive whenever anyone demands their salary,” said Ramrattan, a sanitation worker.
Ashok and Sunil, both sanitation workers, said the contractor issued threats to those who demanded salary and terminated the service of sanitation workers without paying them. “Unable to get any response from the contractor, we were left with the only option to protest in front of the MCG office,” said Ashok.
“MCG is making monthly payments to the contractor but he is not passing on the salaries to the sanitation workers. MCG has filed a complaint against the contractor,” said a sanitation officer of MCG, Bijender Sharma. Based on the complaint, a case was registered under section 406 (criminal breach of trust) IPC at Sadar police station.
An MCG official said the corporation has opened an escrow account, to which the salaries of workers will be credited and the contractors will only be receiving their service charges.