The Delhi Government on Monday ordered immediate disbursal of salaries of contractual Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) employees which had been delayed by several weeks.
On March 21, The Hindu had reported on how thousands of employees of the public transporter were desperately awaiting their pay cheques even as the DTC and the Government’s Transport Department were passing the buck.
K.C. Malik, spokesperson of the DTC Mazdoor Mahasabha, had claimed that over 44,000 DTC employees across various ranks were yet to get their salaries for the month of February.
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While sources in the DTC had attributed the delay in disbursement of employees’ remuneration to the newly sworn-in Aam Aadmi Party’s decision to “delay presenting the annual Delhi Budget”, a Government source had countered the charge saying “the DTC should have planned its finances better.”
Following the Minister’s directions, the statement said, it had been decided that the contractual employees of the DTC would get their salaries on March 25, which is this Wednesday, and all other employees a day later.
The Delhi Government had also decided to “fix the responsibility for this lapse so that such a situation does not arise in future”, the statement added.
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Contractual employees of the DTC will get their salaries this Wednesday, and all other employees a day later