GVMC to form committee to look into workers’ issues

Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) Commissioner Ketan Garg has assured to represent a committee to look into the problems faced by the corp workers. The Commissioner conducted a gathering with representatives of the GVMC Contract Workers Union (CITU) present connected Tuesday.

Speaking connected the occasion, the honorary president of the GVMC Contract Workers Union (CITU) P. Venkat Reddy brought to the announcement of the Commissioner respective issues including employment opportunities for 1 household subordinate of retired workers and workers who died prematurely successful departments specified arsenic Water Supply, Veterinary, and Parks; wage enhancement for loaders; payment measures and basal facilities for sanitation workers; information of women sanitation workers; pending allowances; PF dues of merged workers; and supplementary salaries of workers.

Mr. Garg said that the corp would guarantee the payment of sanitation workers and supply indispensable basal facilities and wage benefits without immoderate inconvenience.

He stated that the GVMC Contract Workers Union (CITU) should relation arsenic an integral portion of GVMC and appreciated the union’s efforts towards workers’ welfare. He said that sanitation workers play a important relation successful maintaining the cleanliness of the metropolis bringing designation to Visakhapatnam, and assured that the GVMC is committed to protecting the rights of specified workers. He further stated that since determination is nary elected assembly astatine contiguous and the GVMC is functioning nether Special Officer administration, Government Orders (GOs) and authoritative memos provided by the national would enactment the medication successful addressing the issues. He directed officials to hole wage bills betwixt the 20th and 26th of each period to guarantee timely outgo of wages to additionally appointed workers.

The Commissioner besides informed the national representatives that a committee comprising the GVMC Additional Commissioner, Chief Medical Officer, Examiner of Accounts, and Supervising Engineers of the Water Supply section would beryllium constituted to analyse each contented mentioned successful the minutes submitted by the union. He said that the committee would sermon the issues with the workers and instrumentality decisions for the implementation arsenic per Government Orders oregon authoritative memos.

GVMC Additional Commissioner P. Nallanayya, Chief Medical Officer Dr. E.N.V. Naresh Kumar and others were present.