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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has urged the Government regularise all sanitation workers if it is serious about making India ‘swachch’ or clean.
It is these ‘safai karamcharis’ who do the endless job of making India clean, said AAP convenor in responding to a letter by Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu seeking his party’s co-operation for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India campaign).
A majority of these safai karamcharis are contract workers and are exploited by contractors. They are thrown out of jobs for no reason, and are not regularised even after they have worked for 30 years. Not only this, after every six months they have to pay a bribe of Rs 10,000-15,000 for getting their names registered in muster rolls (wage registers), Kejriwal said in a release.
He said in some cases, these workers, who enter manholes to clean them, have lost their lives due to poisonous gases emanating from. “If we really want a Swachch Bharat, we will need to give respect to these workers and ensure that they are given better salaries and a good work environment,” he said.
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