Safaiwallahs to get pay hike

KCR keeps promise

Chief Minister assures to regularise jobs of 20,000-odd sanitation workers

Hyderabad: As part of the Swachh Telangana-Swachh Hyderabad programme, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, who visited NBT Nagar here on Tuesday promised to hike salaries of Safai Karmacharis. Once again, comparing the sanitation workers to ‘Gods’, he said that jobs of 20,000-odd sanitation workers would be regularised soon and the government would also provide them with two-bed room houses.

The Chief Minister, who went round various colonies in Hyderabad, announced a number of decisions. Recalling a complaint during his preliminary visits that residents get water at 2 pm, he said water would be released at 7 am from Thursday and within the next three years every house would be given a water connection and no charge would be levied. They would just have to pay nominal monthly charges.

Chandrashekar Rao also sanctioned Rs 30 lakh for a building and 1,000 sq yards was identified for the purpose. Rs 10 lakh was also announced to complete the Hanuman Vyamshala. More than two lakh people were homeless in the city and the government would build two-bedroom apartments for all in a phased manner and would complete the project in the next four years, he said. The present system of carrying garbage in cycle-rickshaws would make way for hydraulic auto-trolleys.

Two bins in different colors would be given to each household to separate dry and wet waste which would be transported in the auto trolleys, which in turn, would deposit the garbage in lorries and then dumped at the yard. Chandrashekar Rao recalled how Surat was transformed from one of the dirtiest cities in India to one of the cleanest. He exhorted people to actively participate in the development programmes undertaken by the government.