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On the other hand, Erode corporation revised wages of similar workers in November this year. MADURAI: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court has come to the rescue of sanitary workers of the city corporation, who are being paid almost half the salary drawn by their counterparts in the municipal corporations of Erode and Pudukottai. “In order to make a city smart, poor labourers who are undertaking sanitary works should be paid reasonable wages. The corporation commissioner has been directed to file a compliance report by January 3. The court also directed the corporation to allow the 26 sweepers working on high court campus to sign an attendance register maintained by a supervisor on the campus and not make them punch biometric device in the corporation office at 6 am..