Contractual sanitation staff protest arbitrary dismissal

Delhi | Tuesday | 4th June, 2019

Summary:

Rachna SethTribune News ServiceNew Delhi, June 3Hundreds of workers and students of Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), Kashmere Gate, held a protest on Monday against the termination of services of 40 contractual sanitation employees. After the new audit of the government, the university administration floated an open tender, which went to Bhagwati Enterprises. The university administration had decided to adjust these workers in three of its campus - Kashmere Gate, Karampura and Lodhi Road. The university administration does not give us fair treatment. They had raised the issue with the deputy registrar, but he said the cleaning of sewers and manholes was not manual scavenging, said Anup, a PhD student..