Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s orders paying a cash incentive of Rs 5,000-Rs 7,500 to the sanitation workers of municipalities for their tremendous work during the Coronavirus crisis, might have won him a lot of accolades.
But Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee [resident and Nalgonda MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy says there have been no salaries to the workers of sanitation wings in several municipalities for the last two months.
“I was shocked to know about non-payment of salaries for the last two months to the sanitation staff of various municipalities in Telangana despite them playing a crucial role in combat against Coroanvirus,” Uttam said.
He said he had visited Miryalguda municipality four days ago where sanitation workers complained of non-payment of salaries for two months. He said the situation was no different in Nalgonda municipality where he visited on Saturday.
"Is this the way to motivate frontline warriors against Coronavirus?" he asked demanding immediate clearance of all dues, along with incentives to entire sanitation staff across Telangana State.
Uttam also demanded that all employees of State Government and pensioners should be paid full salaries and pension amount.
Further, he said substantial incentives should be given to municipal employees, sanitation workers, Gram Panchayat employees, Police personnel and medical professionals.
He said all employees, including contract and outsourcing workers, fighting for containment of Coronavirus pandemic be paid suitable incentives.
