Sanitation Workers Demand BMC For Better Salaries, Housing To Improve Living Conditions

Mumbai: Sanitation workers have successfully resisted the outsourcing of their departments, yet many unresolved issues persist. Secular Movement officials met with Municipal Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani to discuss these concerns. They presented a document outlining requests to improve workers’ welfare, including higher salaries, job opportunities for their children, and housing.

Despite risking their health to maintain the city’s cleanliness and prevent disease, sanitation workers from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation endure low pay and living conditions. Economic uncertainties have led to increased dissatisfaction among them, affecting their families’ lives and their children’s education. The need for better support and resources remains critical.

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Consequently, they requested the Municipal Commissioner to ensure that sanitation and sanitation workers in the Municipal Corporation receive at least one rupee more than government doctors, that the children of sanitation workers be hired as sanitation workers on compassionate grounds, that the policy for appointments in the Municipal Corporation be revised to allow their children or heirs to secure positions based on their educational qualifications, that sanitation workers are provided with decent housing, as well as modern machinery and tools for their tasks, and that the services of sanitation workers and similar workers in various offices and establishments of the Municipal Corporation should be rotated every three years.

The organization Secular Movement has been active for the past decade. This group aims to prevent the influence of religion on education and administration using constitutional methods, primarily by raising awareness and occasional protests. Simultaneously, the Secular Movement organization is pressing the government to address the everyday issues faced by the overlooked and marginalized groups in society and enhance their quality of life