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Sanitation Workers: Sanitation Takes A Hit As 1k Workers Get Poll Duty | Jaipur News
Jaipur: Cleanliness system in the city is starting to deteriorate as garbage dumps have started appearing along the city roads in many localities. Despite a monitoring system in place for no open waste dumping, garbage is being thrown on roads.
The situation is likely to worsen in the coming days as around 1,000 sanitation workers have been assigned poll duties and around 1,500 sanitation workers are already deployed in other departments.
Nandkishore Dandoriya, president of Sanyukt Valmiki Evam Safai Shramik Sangh said that around 1,000 sanitation workers have been assigned duties in the upcoming election process, and hence in some wards of the city only one or two sanitation workers are left to work.
“We have written to the district election officer stating that sanitation workers, health inspectors come under essential services who keep the city clean, remove posters and make sure that norms of model code of conduct are followed. If they are given poll duty then residents will suffer as the cleanliness system in the city will deteriorate,” said Dandoriya.
He further said that there are over 7,000 sanitation workers for the whole city of which around 4,000 sanitation workers are working, while around 1,500 sanitation workers are already deployed in other departments.
Babu Lal Goyal, commissioner Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC)-Greater said that sanitation workers have been assigned election duty and the corporation is managing with existing staff.
Meanwhile, on October 1, JMC-Greater had started Swachhta Prahari Van, to monitor those dumping waste in the open. So far, the municipal corporation has recovered a fine of Rs 1.70 lakh till now from those who are found dumping waste in the open.
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The situation is likely to worsen in the coming days as around 1,000 sanitation workers have been assigned poll duties and around 1,500 sanitation workers are already deployed in other departments.
Nandkishore Dandoriya, president of Sanyukt Valmiki Evam Safai Shramik Sangh said that around 1,000 sanitation workers have been assigned duties in the upcoming election process, and hence in some wards of the city only one or two sanitation workers are left to work.
“We have written to the district election officer stating that sanitation workers, health inspectors come under essential services who keep the city clean, remove posters and make sure that norms of model code of conduct are followed. If they are given poll duty then residents will suffer as the cleanliness system in the city will deteriorate,” said Dandoriya.
He further said that there are over 7,000 sanitation workers for the whole city of which around 4,000 sanitation workers are working, while around 1,500 sanitation workers are already deployed in other departments.
Babu Lal Goyal, commissioner Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC)-Greater said that sanitation workers have been assigned election duty and the corporation is managing with existing staff.
Meanwhile, on October 1, JMC-Greater had started Swachhta Prahari Van, to monitor those dumping waste in the open. So far, the municipal corporation has recovered a fine of Rs 1.70 lakh till now from those who are found dumping waste in the open.
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