Pay your staff on time, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon commissioner to contractors

GURGAON: Short of staff, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has several outsourced employees who have complained to the municipal commissioner that the contractors who hired them had not been paying their salaries on time.

Newly-appointed MCG commissioner Ashok Sangwan on Thursday issued a show cause notice to two contractors asking them why their contract should not be terminated. Other contractors have also been directed to pay salaries to their employees on time, failing which their contract will be terminated.

"Since the state government has not been hiring in recent times, we are short of staff and have to depend on private agencies for manpower on contract. Most of the outsourced employees are clerks, drivers and peons. While we disburse the amount to the private agency owners on time, they have failed to do so to their employees. Many such employees have not received their salaries for months," said a spokesperson of the civic body.

"The commissioner has ordered the private agency owners to pay salary to their employees by the seventh of every month, failing which their contract will be terminated. There have been few instances in the recent past when sanitation workers went on strike because of delay in payment of salary," the spokesperson said.

Sangwan also directed all the senior MCG officials including joint commissioners, chief engineer and superintending engineers to be in office between 11 am and 1 pm every day so that residents can meet them. "Residents are often unable to meet officials who are either busy or not present in office," the spokesperson said.