Ludhiana January 19 Seeking regularisation of jobs for contractual sanitation workers the Municipal Employees Sangarsh Committee here today submitted a memorandum to the chairman of the Punjab State Safai Karamchari Commission Punjab. Ashwani Sahota of the Sangarsh Committee said they had requested the commission chairman to take steps for the regularisation of the jobs of the contractual safai karamcharis and sewermen. He said these sanitation workers had performed their job in a commendable manner during the lockdown. The committee members also demanded that the safai karamcharis and sewermen should be given the status of “safai sainik”. They demanded that a compensation of Rs50 lakh should be given to the kin of those sanitation workers who lost their life on duty. All sanitation workers should be provided free health insurance cards so that they could get treatment at any hospital they added. The committee members demanded the provision of pension for all safai karamcharis sewermen and drivers in all municipal corporations of the state. They also sought action against officials concerned of the MC and Employees Provident Fund Organisation as provident fund was not deposited into the accounts of a number of sanitation workers between September 2014 and October 2018. — TNS

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