MARGAO
Margao Municipal employees and workers are keeping their fingers crossed as they did not receive the salaries and wages on Wednesday ahead of the Christmas festivities.
MMC employees and workers maintained they used to always receive the salaries for the month of December by around December 22 ahead of Christmas. So far, however, the employees did not received the salaries on Wednesday, leaving them to keep their fingers crossed.
Inquiries by The Goan has revealed that the Municipality has funds in its coffers barely to pay the net salaries of the Municipal employees and wages.
When contacted, Margao Municipal Chief Officer, Agnelo Fernandes said the civic body is making all out efforts to credit the salaries and wages of the employees and workers by Thursday. “While other Municipal Councils have been struggling to pay the salaries of the month of November, we will try and credit the salaries of the month of December this month itself on Thursday,” he said.
