BHOPAL: Will the BMC employees have to work on roads and nullaha sans safety gears this year too during monsoon?
Around 6,000 employees of Bhopal Municipal Corporation are yet to receive protective gears they would require during rains. The employees claimed that the civic body authorities had provided these gears to a few staffers last year and others were neglected.
The rains have already started and the field staff including sanitation workers, garbage collection staff, workshop employees, drivers and others now are demanding gears needed during monsoon. Earlier, they had complained of shortage of safety gears required for cleaning of city nullahs.
Now, they say rains have arrived and none of them has received raincoats, caps and gloves, shoes, lights and batteries etc.
The workers claim that the officials have delayed the process as rains have already arrived and now cleaning of nullahs has been intensified. The lack of protective gears will cause trouble to sanitation workers, they say.
Magan Jhanjhot, a BMC worker says they have held talks with senior officials and the latter have assured that tender for purchasing these gears is floated.
But, the workers are facing health issues as they are cleaning nullahs sans proper safety gears, says Awadhnarayan Makoria, a leader of the sanitation workersí union.
The tender process should be done at the earliest as rains have arrived and we are already working in nullahs and on the roads, says a sanitation worker.
