New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has regularised 1,467 sanitation workers in two months, with around 400 more workers set to be regularised before Diwali, Delhi Mayor Pravesh Wahi said on Monday.

Addressing a press conference at the MCD headquarters, Wahi said the Corporation had also appointed dependants of deceased sanitation workers to 542 posts as daily-wage sanitation workers on compassionate grounds.

The Mayor said 505 sanitation workers belonging to the 1998-2000 and 2000-2002 batches were regularised in October. During the same month, dependants of deceased sanitation workers were appointed to 109 posts on compassionate grounds, while 111 Assistant Sanitation Inspectors were promoted to the post of ...