Safai karamcharis and Ghantagadi Workers in Thane
Safai karamcharis and Ghantagadi Workers in Thane There are about 1400 'so called' contract workers working as Safai Karamcharis and Ghantagadi workers in the Solid Waste Management department under Thane Municipal Corporation. Safai and Ghantagadi workers are doing permanent and perennial nature job. Sweepers and Ghantagadi workers are performing statutory duty of Corporation of cleaning, sweeping, and transportation of garbage. Safai workers are doing the same kind of work for more than 12-13 years but still they have not got the status of permanent workers. Workers working under TMC are getting Rs242 per day. In Ward No. 17 (Diva Ward), workers are not even getting the minimum wages as they are getting only Rs150. There are atrocities against the workers from both sides- contractors as well as government employees. This whole contract system is 'sham' and 'bogus' according to the 'Abolition and Regulation of Contract Labour Act 1947'. In 200...