Lt Governor Anil Baijal suspends 2 PWD engineers over LNJP sewer death

“Two PWD engineers suspended in the incident of unfortunate death of sewer worker on Sunday. Zero tolerance for negligence in such cases,” the LG tweeted.

A senior official said a probe conducted by the PWD found that both the engineers should have ensured that safety code is followed by the contractor.

So far in litter over a month, 10 workers have lost their lives whle cleaning sewers.

Meanwhile, some trade unions jointly staged a dharna against the deaths of sewer workers while cleaning drains in the city.

Representatives of unions – Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch, Centre for Indian Trade Union (CITU), DYFI and Janwadi Mahila Samiti – handed over a memorandum to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, demanding to ban manual cleaning of sewers.

After the death of workers, authorities recently decided to fully mechanise the process of sewers cleaning and made it clear any violation would attract a punishment of up to life imprisonment.

Also, senior DJB officials have been directed to supervise cleaning of sewers where manual intervention is required.

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