All is not well in Mumbai Municipal Corporation. Complaints ranging from harassment of employees to non-healing of people were coming even earlier, but due to new allegations of big scam along with corruption, some blackness in pulses has also started to arise. Anger is growing about this.
Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) sanitation workers allege that no one knows where their provident fund money is going. While its money is being deducted every month. They allege that this is not a meager amount, but about Rs 80 crore has been misappropriated in this scam. Hundreds of BMC sweepers have alleged that scam is happening in every department here.
On Tuesday, hundreds of sanitation workers agitated against the Mumbai Municipal Corporation in Kherwadi area of Mumbai. They allege that thousands of sanitation workers work for the Mumbai Municipal Corporation on permanent and contract basis, but with the connivance of the BMC officials and the contractor, the amount that should be deposited in their PF account is not being deposited. On getting information about this, now they are compelled to agitate on the road for their rights.
The employees say that because of their low educational qualification, the contractor and the officers are doing injustice to them among themselves. Said that he was running PF as a safe for his children’s education, marriage and his own old age, but recently it came to know that that money is not going to his account. This makes them feel cheated.
Said that due to our being less educated, contractors and officers are manipulating our papers. We are not told anything about it. We only know that such a part of our salary is being deducted, but no one has told where it went.
Because of this we have been compelled to agitate against the injustice being done to ourselves. The employees demanded from the government that action should be taken against the culprits by conducting a high-level inquiry, as this amount is in crores.