SAD seeks regular jobs for contractual workers

Ludhiana, May 22

Demanding regularisation of jobs of all contractual safai karamcharis, sewer men, beldar and other Class IV employees, a delegation of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leaders met Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu.

The SAD leaders, including Ludhiana SAD president Ranjit Singh Dhillon, Leader of Opposition in the MC House Harbhajan Singh Dang and senior Akali leader Vijay Danav submitted a memorandum, addressed to the Chief Minister, to the Mayor.

They demanded that jobs of all contractual sanitation workers and Class IV employees of the state must be regularised.

“During the tenure of the previous SAD-BJP government, a notification was issued to regularise the services of around 27,000 safai karamcharis, sewer men and Class IV employees. But the Congress government has failed to address the issue till date,” said Harbhajan Singh Dang.

The Akali leaders said they were supporting employees of municipal councils who had been staging protests and observing strike for the regularisation of their jobs.

“If the employees of the MC go on strike, the situation would turn worse. We demand that all contractual employees must be regularised at the earliest,” they said. — TNS