The Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh has given a big gift to the Safai Karamcharis (UP Employees) appointed on contract in the bodies. The government has increased the honorarium of these employees.
Now the employees will get Rs.366.54 instead of Rs.336.85 per day. Additional Chief Secretary, Urban Development has issued an order related to increasing the honorarium on Monday. The decision to give honorarium at the rate of per day was taken in March 2021.
According to the mandate issued by the Additional Chief Secretary, it has been increased on the basis of the determination of the basic rates and the change dearness allowance payable to the workers or personnel kept under the Minimum Wages Act 1948, by the letter of the Deputy Labor Commissioner, 31 March 2022. It is written that the basic wages, variable dearness allowance, monthly and daily wage rates have been determined under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, only to the cleaning workers / workers employed through service providers / contracts in the civil local bodies of Uttar Pradesh. .
After this order, now the sanitation workers appointed on contract in the municipal bodies of UP will get honorarium at the rate of Rs 366.54 per day. Earlier, they used to get an honorarium of Rs 336.85 per day, that is, the honorarium of contract cleaning workers has been increased at the rate of Rs 29.69 per day. Bodies will now have to pay honorarium on the basis of this. In the arrangement given for the employment of the Labor Department, ‘wiping and cleaning’ is not included in the activities prohibited under the Construction of Dry Toilets (Prohibition) Act, 1993, which have now been included in it, which will also benefit them.
