Mumbai : About 70 per cent of the BMC’s workers hired to clean public places are absent from work at any given time, claim the BMC’s opposition parties.
The MNS’s Sandeep Deshpande said 200 workers per ward are appointed to work in shifts everyday to clean public places. The BMC spends a vast sum of money in contracts to hire these workers. However, it fails to get the returns.
Deshpande has proposed that machines be used to sweep streets instead of the workers, who can easily default on attendance.
This proposal was supported by the BJP and Shiv Sena corporators. Leader of the house Trushna Vishwasrao pointed out that attendance can be faked as the contractors mark 100 per cent attendance for defaulting workers.
BJP corporator Vinod Shelar demanded that the civic body set up a biometric system to mark the attendance of the workers. He said this system can be linked with the employees’ salary accounts. He said, “We will face a lot of pressure from workers’ unions but this is the only way to ensure attendance is not faked.”
