September 24, 2024 9:13 am
Contract-based employment leaves workers vulnerable, said Bablu Parcha, the state president of Akhil Bhartiya Safai Mazdoor Sangh, warning of an indefinite strike if the demands are not addressed.
April 15, 2023 1:52 am
Mevani also released a video with "14 questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the RSS and the BJP" on various issues of the Dalits, Adivasis and Other Backward Classes.
November 02, 2022 12:12 pm
However, Delhi Commission for Safai Karamcharis chairperson Sanjay Gehlot said that the exercise was an eyewash as thousands of workers have been demanding regularisation for decades.
February 21, 2022 8:42 pm
There are around 32,000 sanitation workers employed by the North MCD, of which 17,000 are permanent.
May 28, 2021 8:09 am
They have also been involved in sanitisation work since the Covid pandemic broke out. The data shows that 16 of 29 deaths in South MCD, 25 of 49 in North MCD and 8 of 16 deaths in East MCD were of those engaged in sanitation exercises.
July 30, 2021 7:52 pm
While working to rehabilitate and support manual scavengers, one of the first steps should be to recognise the women engaged in this work and prioritise their needs.
October 24, 2020 10:32 am
The employees in a communication had also stated that “their workers can even die” after wearing these watches and it affects their privacy as there were attempts to make them “bonded labour”.
July 24, 2019 7:32 am
This data, although startling, is, by NCSK’S own admission, a gross underestimate since it includes figures for only eight states — Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu — out of 36 states and Union Territories.
August 18, 2015 3:09 am
Civic corporation says shortage of cleaners on account of Independence Day led to pile-up.
January 11, 2014 2:52 am
Officials used departmental inquiry shield to avoid criminal liability: Probe


