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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has projected a ₹50 crore allocation successful its 2026-27 fund to standardise salaries, providing large alleviation to multi-tasking unit (MTS) workers.
Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh announced the determination astatine a property league connected Thursday, a time up of the civic body’s fund support successful the House. He said the determination addresses a long-pending request for adjacent wage among MTS workers. “This disparity volition present end. We person fulfilled the committedness made to MTS employees. During the fund session, Leader of the House Pravesh Wahi volition formally denote and seal the decision,” Mr. Singh said.
Standing Committee chairperson Satya Sharma said MTS employees had approached her aggregate times to rise concerns astir unequal wage scales crossed zones. During her fund finalisation code connected January 28, Ms Sharma had addressed the request of providing a occupation to a household subordinate successful lawsuit of the decease of an MTS worker, saying that it would beryllium resolved astatine the earliest. She had past besides announced that the employees would beryllium fixed adjacent pay.
The workers successful six of the 12 zones person ₹27,000 per month, portion those successful the remaining zones are paid betwixt ₹17,000 and ₹19,000 successful enactment with minimum wage norms.
The contented had triggered protests successful October 2025, erstwhile implicit 5,200 MTS-DBC workers staged demonstrations for much than a month. They demanded adjacent pay, regularisation of services, aesculapian and earned leave, and compensatory jobs for families of deceased employees.
