Arvinnd Kejriwal mentioned the variety of circumstances recorded in final 24 hours has additional dipped to about 6,500
New Delhi:
The Delhi authorities introduced on Saturday a grant of Rs 1,051 crore for the three municipal firms to pay salaries of healthcare staff and different workers amid the second coronavirus wave.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in a digital briefing, mentioned regardless of constrained circumstances because of the lockdown, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took this choice as these people who find themselves serving to battle the pandemic ought to get their salaries.
Medical doctors and different workers of the civic our bodies are usually not getting their salaries as a result of “mismanagement and corruption” within the municipal firms, the Aam Aadmi Celebration chief alleged.
The South Delhi Municipal Company, East Delhi Municipal Company and North Delhi Municipal Company are all BJP-led civic our bodies.
“The Delhi authorities has launched Rs 1,051 crore to the three municipal firms in complete in order that they will pay salaries of their workers, amid this pandemic.
“The east company is to get Rs 367 crore, north company about Rs 432 crore and south company Rs 251 crore,” he mentioned.
The minister asserted that civic authorities should guarantee this fund was used for paying salaries of workers solely and never “diverted for different utilization”.
In the meantime, North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash claimed that the grant by the Delhi authorities was launched after the three firms “exerted stress” on it.
The three civic our bodies have been writing a number of letters to the chief minister and the Lt governor looking for launch of funds, he mentioned.
Delhi had recorded 8,506 coronavirus circumstances on Friday, the each day rely dipping to beneath the ten,000-mark once more after a month, with medical specialists attributing the lockdown as the principle issue behind the dip amid the second wave.
Mr Kejriwal mentioned that the variety of circumstances recorded within the final 24 hours has additional dipped to about 6,500 with a positivity charge of 11 per cent.
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