Dehradun, Aug. 21 -- Garhwal Post Bureau

Dehradun, 19 Aug: A crucial meeting was held at the Panchayati Raj Directorate, IT Park, Dehradun, today to discuss solutions to the problems faced by sanitation workers. The meeting, convened at the initiative of Uttarakhand Safai Karmachari Commission Vice-Chairman Bhagwat Prasad Makwana, was chaired by Urban Development Secretary Nitesh Kumar Jha and attended by union leaders, commission members, municipal commissioners and senior departmental officials.

During the meeting, Makwana stressed on the need to create new permanent posts for environmental workers and supervisors in line with expanding urban areas and to reinstate abolished posts. He pressed for immediate recruitment to vacant positi...