North Delhi civic body regularises nearly 170 part-time sanitation workers
Several nurses of the city’s hospitals run by the three civic bodies on Thursday called off their strike after they reached a resolution with the municipal administration, an official said.
“The nurses from all three corporations — North, East and South — who had been on a strike for the last few days asking for promotion, among other demands, met civic officials and decided to call off their stir,” a senior NDMC official said.
He said the striking nurses met NDMC’s standing committee chairman Mohan Bhardwaj at his office at the Civic Centre here and reached an agreement to call of the strike.
North Delhi has big hospitals like Hindu Rao Hospital and Kasturba Hospital, while South has big polyclinic at Kalkaji, among other civic health facilities.
Meanwhile, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation has regularised nearly 170 part-time sanitation workers of the civic body, a senior official said on Thursday.
The NDMC said the promotion has been done in keeping with the vision of Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya, who stood for “the last man in the row”. “The promotion would raise their salaries by nearly eight times. There are 168 such employees who would benefit from this,” he said.
The proposal was made recently and Mr Bhardwaj made the decision official on Wednesday, he said.
Arrears and salary hike demanded by sanitation workers at all the three civic bodies have had led to strikes by them in the recent past.
