CM: Policy to regularise sanitation staff in works
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann today said the state government is mulling a policy to regularise the services of sanitation workers. He said a high-level committee had already been constituted to evolve a viable mechanism for the purpose by taking all stakeholders into confidence.
Addressing a Shobha Yatra on the eve of Valmiki Jayanti, the CM said, “The times have gone when one had to get down into the sewer to clean it. We need to update the system and use machines for the cleaning work.”
Mann added that machines were bring brought in from outside. He said as far as the issue of contractual sanitation workers was concerned, AAP leader Chandan Grewal was the member of the committee and the chairman of Safai Karamchari Commission and know their demands well.
On the issue of safai sewaks, Grewal told The Tribune, “Most sanitation workers in Jalandhar are rolls. In other parts of the state, such workers have been employed on contractual basis. The CM has said a policy is being mulled regarding the same. The issue is among his key priorities.”
Meanwhile, the CM said Bhagwan Valmiki was the “pitaamah” (father) of Sanskrit language and first poet or the Adi Kavi of the world, who, by his immortal composition “Ramayana”, propagated the message of the victory of good over evil.
