The contract workers at Sonsodo treatment plant who have not been paid wages for the last three months. Captured by : Santosh Mirajkar
MARGAO
With the Margao Municipal defaulting in clearing their three-month wages despite reminders, contract workers engaged on the running the Sonsodo waste treatment plant called on the Municipal Chairperson Lyndon Pereira with a plea to release the payments.
Earlier, the workers told the MMC officials that they have been finding difficult to make both ends meet on account of the inordinate delay by the Civic body to clear their wages of the last three months.
Sources pointed out that the workers finally called on the Municipal Chairperson, who called Municipal sanitation inspector VirajArabekar for details on the issue.
Records stated that while the sanitary section had compiled details of the payments long ago, there was a delay by the Civic body to release the wages.
The MMC Chairperson later put his signature on the file, and called for clearing the wages immediately to the workers.
The workers, number around 10-11 were retained by the MMC to run the Sonsodo waste treatment plant when the same was handed over to the Civic body by Fomento over a year ago. The Municipality, however, had not been prompt in clearing their payments over the last one year, prompting them to take up their matter with the Civic authorities time and again.
