Sanitary workers protest at Telangana Secretariat 'Pending Salaries'

After retired employees and contractors, sanitary workers and scavengers working at different police stations staged a protest at the Secretariat on Tuesday, demanding payment of their pending salaries.

The sanitary workers sweep and maintain sanitation at different police stations across the State. They are enrolled as part-time workers and are paid a minimum salary of Rs 5,200 a month.

However, the workers alleged that they had not been paid their salaries for the past 20 months. “For the last 20 months, our salaries have not been paid. Every time we raise the



issue, senior officers assure us that the salary would definitely be credited the next month. But it has not been paid so far,” a sanitary worker said at the Secretariat.

About 4,500 such workers are employed across the State. The workers said they had met Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and appealed to them to clear their pending salaries.

“We have also been to Praja Bhavan. But officials say the government has to clear the salaries. This has been the case for the last 20 months,” another worker said.