Hike Sanitation Workers' Wages: KCR To Local Govts

Reacting to the continuing strike of the municipal sanitation workers in the districts and villages, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today directed the local governments to increase the salaries of the former by using 50% of the revenues generated at the village panchayat level.

Launching the Grama Jyothi scheme for the all-round development of villages, KCR asked the gathering of district Collectors, JCs, SPs, Zilla Parishad CEOs and officials concerned at the Prof Jayashankar Agriculture University on Tuesday to focus on sanitation and infrastructure development in villages.

He said that the government would spend over Rs 20 crores to supply tricycles and rickshaws for the timely removal of garbage and trash.

"We will allocate at least one rickshaw for every 750 persons of a village for the purpose," he said.

The Chief Minister declared that as many as 25,000 rickshaws would be supplied for garbage collection, and that a dump yard and a cemetery would also be set up in each village.

KCR asked the villages to observe a power holiday for a single day to protect energy for future needs.

"We are blessed with energetic women groups, whose services will prove handy in the process of village development," he also observed.