Ludhiana, November 11

Members of various unions of Municipal Corporation employees have demanded from the state government to regularise jobs of contractual employees, including safai karamcharis, sewermen and beldar.

Members of the Municipal Employees Dal staged a protest outside the MC’s Zone A office against the state government for not regularising the jobs of contractual workers of the civic body. They have also written a letter to Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, demanding regularisation of jobs of the employees.

The protesters said the state government had taken a decision to regularise 36,000 contractual workers.

“We have learnt that the government decision would not be implemented on Municipal Corporations due to which civic body employees are disappointed. We demand from the government to regularise the contractual sanitation workers,” union chairman Vijay Danav said.

They also demanded from the government to resume the old pension scheme for safai karamcharis and sewermen.

Members of the Municipal Class IV Employees Association of the MC, Ludhiana, along with Ashwani Sahota of the Municipal Employees Sangharsh Committee, submitted a memorandum to Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu.

Sahota said they had demanded regularisation of jobs of the safai karamcharis, sewermen and other Class IV staff who had been working on DC rates for long. “We have also sought a festival allowance of Rs 5,000 for each of these employees,” he said. — TNS