New Delhi, Oct. 26 -- Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday announced that the state government would soon consider an increase in the honorarium paid to sanitation workers, or Paryavaran Mitras, employed across various government departments. He said a meeting would be organised at the earliest to take up the matter.

The announcement was made during a procession organised by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation to mark Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti. The chief minister also used the occasion to outline the state's education, housing and social welfare measures for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities.

The proposed honorarium revision is among the employment-related issues raised during the event. Dhami did not sp...