Sanitation union chief held for attack on Hisar MC staff
Rohtak, Sept. 7 -- The president of the Hisar Municipal Corporation Sanitation Workers' Union has been arrested in connection with an alleged attack on civic employees and damage to a garbage collection vehicle during a door-to-door sanitation drive in the Sector 13 market, police said on Saturday. Accused Surender alias Golu has been booked on the complaint of MC junior engineer Pawan Daroga. The arrest was made at the MC office, triggering protests by sanitation workers, officials said.
According to police, CCTV footage from near Malik Chowk, close to the residence of former Haryana urban local bodies minister Kamal Gupta, showed several people surrounding a garbage collection vehicle, with Surender allegedly threatening the driver. Sanitation workers have been protesting since August 6 for regular jobs, among other demands. Sections 221, 121(1), 132, 126(2), 304, 351(3) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with Section 3(1) of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, have been invoked.
Former Haryana chief minister and leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda accused the BJP government of misleading sanitation workers and employees of the Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam (HKRN) over job regularisation.
Hooda, who was in Rohtak, said, "The government lied in the assembly. On the demand pertaining to sanitation workers, it said no policy could be formulated to regularise them just after two years of service."
Hooda claimed that two notifications were issued during the previous Congress government, in 2014, providing for the regularisation of employees who had completed three years of service.
Instead of extending similar benefits, the BJP government attempted to remove employees who had been regularised under the earlier policy and block further regularisation, he alleged....
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